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coker’ ’s Icones Plantarum.—Part one of Vol. V. of the fourth series 
enormous tree 150 feet high, with a straight trunk 5 feet in diameter,” 
inhabiting North Travancore. Ramisia brasiliensis is a somewhat 
pretties ae of ti Nyctaginee, blót Wi ith stellate scales like 
an Eleaynus, and having an accrescent perianth 1} inches in diameter, 
enclosing ite: ripe fruit. Lysimachia grandifolia, a native of China, is 
warkable for its ample foliage and umbellate flowers ; and Petrocosmea 
blue flowers three es as large as th he p TT known 
species. Daniella ppd is the frankincense tree of ne. 
C od rp w genus of the Aurantiacee, Tienes unifolio- 
curious novelties from Borneo, including a new genus, 
Hederella, allied to Medinilla. Aloe minima is a diminutive species 
discovered by M. S. Evans in Natal. Finally there are figures of two 
e ene species of um "ANT umbelliferous genus Neogoezia, described 
e Bulletin, 1894, p. 354. Unfortunately ris “arg ens and 
stir errors were overlooked in this number. Thus the letterpress 
to plate 2415, p. 3, the name Malanthos and its dorivátidl iN be 
aiae Hederella TA Stapf, plate 2416, is not a new 
species, but the same as Dissocheta quintuplinervis, Cogn. Pomatostoma 
immer um, plate 2420, is ido not new,as may be seen from the 
dms e i: 
Distribution of Kew Seeds.— The md annually of a list. of 
seeds ripened at Kew and available for exchange has resulted in a con- 
siderable inerease in the number of packets of seeds distributed. "The 
are applied for from both publie and private gardens in all parts of bid 
world. The seeds are for the most part of re plants. Last 
(1894) nearly 6000 packets aa supplied correspondents viue 
desiderata had been seleeted from the printed ee In addition to this 
number nearly 1000 packets of dedi received from Botanic Gardens in ~ 
India and the Colonies were distributed from Kew. The total number 
of packets of seeds distributed annually from Kew ‘haps to the i issue 
of a printed list in 1885 was about 2000 per annu 
Remo val of large Screw Pines.—The disappearance from the orth : 
wing of the Palm house of the two miM LE s of Screw 
(Pandanus) which had for so many yea en conspicuous objects ‘in 
it requires a brief agate The age of both ai probably not less than 
0-80 years. They were, therefore, in existence at Kew before it 
became a national chi se rar The names which they have always 
borne are perhaps not free from doubt. But the accurate determination 
of Pandanads is attended with extreme difficulty. 
Pandanus reflexus.—This was a striking plant of great size which 
tood at the’ end of the wing near the staircase. It immediatel 
attracted attention from its dense heads of enormous Beir y UE 
eaves. According to John Smith’ s Records of Kew (p. 126) it was 
introduced to Kew by Wallich in 1818. P. Voli is an obscure. 
