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impossible to over-estimate the value of such training, and there 
can be little doubt that the pie will be apparent in a muc 
more rapid advance in the material development of these 
Colonies, which have rans ud almost entirely dependent 
on trade in native and forest products, and m" devoted little 
attention to the systematic vultbeiiot of the so 
DLXXXIIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
MR. LOUIS GENTIL, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Gardens, has been appointed by the Government of the 
Congo Free State to the post of Agricultural Expert. He leaves for 
Africa in October. 
Botanical Magazine for September.— Plates 7552 and 7553 are given 
oa new species of Scheelea, described as S. kewensis. It is a native 
of tropical Remi wena = = eee cavad i in the Royal Gardens 
for many years the ong n of Maximiliana regia. 
The plant is now 75 feet high, site pue for the first and only 
time in 1895. Other plants drawn are Cirrhopetalum Curtisti, 
Helianthus giganteus, and Veronica balfouriana. The Cirrhope- 
talum is also a new species, having been sent to Kew by Mr. C. 
Curtis, F.L.S., of Penang. It is allied to C. Büsbür ghi and 
C. concinnum, both of which are figured in Hooker’s Re 
Plantarum, plates 10574 and 2060B. The Helianthus is ery 
old ionge , being mentioned in botanical works publis hed eM the 
end of the seventeenth century. he specimen figured was 
supplied by A. B. Freeman Mitford, Esq., C.B., from his fine 
garden at Batsford Park, Gloucestershire. The New Zealand 
Veronica is the third new "plant published in this number of the 
Magazine. It approaches V. bei A ee 6390), differing 
somewhat in habit, and having longer The specimen 
figured was grown in Sir J. D. Hooker’s ania i — 
Victoria regia.—A new variety of this fine water-lily has been 
grown at Kew this year. lt was raised from seeds received from 
Fr . Dreer, nurseryman, Philadelphia. It differs from all 
six o'clock. It ~ Sle a with extraordinary vigour. and flowers 
more freely than A second plant sent from Kew to 
the Royal fo yA ea Glasnevin, has shown the same 
Guatattrigen. 
` New Wing of Temperate House.—Kew is well supplied with 
accommodation for nus requiring the temperature of the stove 
and cool greenhouse, but has long wanted an * intermediate 
house of larger aia ckistots than the Dons vltols (No. IV.). 
been supplied by the erection of the South Wing of 
the Tompetide House. It was included in the original design by 
