ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
APPENDIX II.—1897. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1896. 
The number of garden plants annually = yeni in botanical and 
byte publieations, both English and foreign, is now so consider- 
able that it has been thought desirable to publish a sottitéto list of them 
in the Kew Bulletin each year. The following list comprises all the 
new introductions sepas sore 1896. These lists are indispensable 
to the maintenance of a rect nomenclature, especially in the smaller 
botanical Albona in rhea with Kew, which are, as & 
rule, only scantily provided with horticultural periodicals. 
will afford information respecting new plants under cultivation at 
this establishment, many. of which will be vraie from it in the 
regular course of exchange with other botanie garden 
The present list includes not only plants biok in into cultivation for 
the first time during 1896, but the most noteworthy o 
been re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. Other plants 
included in the list may have been in gardens for several years, but either 
were m described or their names had not been authenticated "until 
cent 
In addition to Deus and botanical varieties, all hybrids, whether 
introduced or of garden origin, with botanieal names, and described for 
the first time in 1896, are included. It has not been un desirable, 
however, to give authorities after the names of garden in su 
genera as Cypripedium, &c. . Mere garden a5 of a plants as 
leus, Codieum or Narcissus are omitted for obvious reasons. 
In every case the us is cited under its published - name, although 
some of the names are doubtfully correct. Where, however, a correction 
has appeared desirable, this is made. 
The name of the Bron 1 in — collection the plant was first noticed 
or described is given where known. 
An asterisk is eo to dii those plants of which examples are in 
cultivation at 
The ptiticitinns from which this list is compiled, with the abre. 
viation used to indicate them, are as follows :— — Bulletin 
L Herbier Boissier. B. H. N.— Bulletin da Museum d' histoire naturelle; 
M.—Botanical Magazine. Bruant Cat.—Bruant’s Catalogue 
U 96558. 1375.—4/97. Wt. 123. A 
