148 TlMEHRI. 
If the Bromeliad -together with its dependent the Itricularia— 
could be successfully introduced into cultivation, they would form very 
striking and interesting objects. Utricularia Hwriboldtii is very differ- 
ent in appearance from either JJ. montana or TJ. Lndresii, and is one of 
the finest species of the genus ; the petioles of its leaves are from 1£ to 2 
feet long ; the leaf -blade is cuneate-reneform in outline, and from 2 to 
5 inches broad ; the flower-stem apparently grows to about 3 feet in 
height, and the flowers are about ] £ in diameter. 
Mr. Jenman's remark, that it appears to be strictly confined to the 
Bromeliad, may be correct, so far as that region is concerned ; but 
Schomburgk, who discovered Utricularia Humholdtii, states in his 
Meisen in Britisch Guiana, p. 1086, that he collected it on the southern 
declivity of Eoraima at an altitude of 6000 feet, growing in boggy 
grassy places along with Heliamjilwra, Cypripedium, &c." 
To these remarks on the locality of the Utricularia, 
we may add that the plant, with the Hehamphora, 
Cypripedium, &c. was gathered only last year, at the 
very place where Schomburg gathered it forty years ago. 
As an instance of how some of our common things are 
unknown, and therefore welcome to botanists and hor- 
ticulturalists at home, it may be mentioned that the late 
Curator of the Museum carried with him to England in 
1879, some tubers of the Aroid well known here under 
the name of Labaria-bush, owing this name to the fact 
that the leaf-stems are marked somewhat as is the skin 
of the Labarria snake [Trigonocephalus at ox]. The 
plant has attracted much attention at Kew, where it has 
recently flowered and been welcomed as of a new and 
remarkable species. So that our old creole friend is 
about to receive its scientific baptism at home* 
Locust Gum. — There is at present a large demand for 
this article, to which we have already made reference, 
and orders for large quantities for commercial pur- 
