ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
APPENDIX II.—1897. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1896. 
The number of garden plants annually described in botanical and 
horticultural publications, both English and foreign, is now so consider- 
able that it has been thought desirable to publish a complete list of them 
in the Kew Bulletin each year. The following list comprises all the 
new introductions m during 1896. These lists are indispensable 
to the maintenance of a correct nomenclature, MD in the smaller 
botanical aiibi in correspondence wit w, which are, as a 
rule, only scantily provided with beetkéult deny AM Such a list 
will also afford information respecting new plants under cultivation at 
this establishment, many of which will be dist € from it in the 
regular course of exchange with other botanic gar ideti 
The present list includes not only plants CORRER into cbe tie 
the first time during 1896, but the most noteworthy of tho ich 
n re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. Other lait 
included in the list may have been in gardens for several years, but ‘either 
were not described or their names had not been authenticated until 
recent 
In addition to species and botanical varieties, all hybrids, whether 
introduced or of garden origin, with botanical names, and described for 
the first time in 1896, are included. It has not been thought Nd 
however, to give authorities after the names of gar hybri rids in such 
p as Cypripedium, &c. Mere garden varieties of such rdi as 
Coleus, Codicum or Narcissus are omitted for obvious reasons. 
ine itty pum the es is eited under its published name, although 
some of the names are doubtfully correct. Where, however, a correction 
has appeared Jee, this i is made. 
The name of the person in eee collection the plant was first noticed 
or described is given where kno 
An asterisk is prefixed to ad ites plants of which examples are in 
cultivation at Kew. 
e publications ne which this list is compiled, with the abbre- 
. viation used to indicate them, are as follows:—B. B.—Bulletin de 
L'Herbier Boissier. B. H. N.—Bulletin du Museum d'histoire naturelle, 
Paris. B. M.—Botanical Magazine. Bruant Cat.—Bruant e 
U 96558. 1375.—4/97. Wt. 123. 
