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This new genus comes nearest to Grantia, from which it differs by 
its homogamous discoid flowers, biseriate involucre with pinnata 
rimi Aye Sawa and the absence of a paleaceous outer row to the 
us. In eral habit it most resembles e Algerine Grantia 
(Perralderiay ohromia, Benth. et Hook. fi 
220. Caralluma arabica, V. E. Brown bdelgind). C. tuberculate 
similis, floribus terminalibus sepalis 
ovatis acutis, corolle tubo brevi campanulato lobis ovatis acatis levibus 
atro-purpureis, coronze exterioris lobis profunde bifidis segmentis lineari- 
filiformibus Ghtialied rectis apice arcuatis quam columna staminum multo 
longioribus, coron: interioris lobis linearibus obtusis dorso gibbosis super 
antheras incumbentibus et eis sub:zquantibus. 
Habitat.—Southern Arabia: Wadi eu near Saihut, Hirsch, 28. 
Pedicelli 14-2 lin. longi. Sep 3-2 lin. longa. Corolle 
tubus 1% lin. longus, lobi 2 lin. eae H lin. lati. Corone exterioris 
lobi i lin. longi, segmentis 4 lin. longis; interioris lobi 4—} lin. 
longi. 
CORNER RAR ERES NOTES. 
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entered the Royal Gardens in June 1892. He was lent from Kew to 
act as Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, Gold Coast, during the 
absence, in 1893-4, of the late Mr. Crowther, who was sent by his 
Government to inspect the principal Botanic Gardens in the West 
Indies. Mr. Willey managed the station to the satisfaetion of the 
Government of the Gold Coast and is therefore prepared by previous 
experience in West Africa for the duties of his new post. 
r.J. M. Hxwnv has retired from tbe post of Superintendent of 
the] Rated State Gardens after 16 years service. He was sent out from 
Kew in 1867, and after 12 years service in ras and Bengal was 
appointed to Baroda in November 1879. 
Botanical Magazine.—The number for November is conan aly an 
orchid number, the only other plant figured being the wy verbena- 
ceous Amasonia erecta, a native of eastern tro opical outh Rialto: for 
living plants of ca Kew is indebted to Messrs. Sander & Co. 
orchids are: Angrecum Kotschyi, from a very fine raceme from the 
arden of Sir Trevor. previas Spathoglottis kimballiana, a pretty 
Bornean ies, also one of Messrs. Sander’s introductions; Catasetum 
i eg native of the Ile de Marajo, at. the mouth of the Amazons, sent 
to Kew by Mr. E. Rand in 1894; and Selenipedium sargentianum, a 
native of Brazil, imported by Messrs. Sander, and flowered in 1896. 
With the ree, Han of the Catasetum, there are all ‘handsome ornamental 
orchids, 
