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collected by Karwinski in the Nevado de Toluca, Mexico, and two other 
Mexican localities are recorded ; yet it appears that no end ecd 
has met with it in Mexico, and there are no Mexicán specimens a 
Hartweg collected it in the Volean de Agua, Guatemala, in | 1837; w 
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sented to Kew by M. de Falbe, formerly Danish Minister to the Court 
of St. James. Disa sagittalis, a relatively enpo South 
African orchid, was presented to t oyal Garde y H. J. Elwes, 
S Veronica regere g one of uo numerous New Zealand species, 
flowered in the Rock Garden at Kew in 1893; and pres dependens 
(Duvaua Mee i native of Chili, i is a hardy sh b of no great 
ornamental character, thongh 4 — iR wan riei de with a 
profusion of its wait yellow flowers. It was raised at Kew from seed 
obtained from the Botanic Garden of Santiag 
"The April number consists en entirely of planté that = flowered at 
PE ns dein jr ana (Euphorbiaces) is a native of the 
Philippine Islands, w! ere it was discovered b Mr. Maris Porte, and 
after whom it is named. A young plant was sent from the Jardin des 
Plan ntes, iet in 1892, and it tias long been a very mm peek in sd 
obtained from a continental nurseryman. Jzianthes retzioides (Scro- 
panapo) i is an exceedingly rare, indeed, almost’ extinct, South African 
shrub, having large yellow flowers. lants were raised at Kew from 
seed sent in n 1891 by Prof. MacOwan, Government Botanist at Cape- 
town. Piptospatha Ridleyi, a small aroid, discovered in Johore, and 
sent to Kew by Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director ‘of the Garden and Forest 
Department of the Straits Settlements. Magnolia parviflora, a native 
of Japan, was figured from a plant, obtained from Yokohama, which 
flowered in the Arboretum last June. 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum.— The third part of the fourth volume, 
(fourth series) appeared in April, and contains, among Seer things, 
figures of the principal rare plants of Mr. Bent's Hadramaut ex pedition 
described in the Kew Bulletin, 1894, pp. 328-343. A second figure of 
the very singular Chinese tree, Eucommia gerer Oliv., represents 
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Professor D. Oliver now refers it to the neighbourhood of Trochodendron, 
Another very oe plant figured is Circeaster agrestis, Maxim. 
It was at first suggested that its affinity lay in the direction of the 
€ ofessor Oliver is now inclined to regard it as a 
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