After the original description was published, and plants flowered here for the first time in 1875.* How long it persisted at Kew-it does not seem to have been grown elsewhere we do not know; it is not mentioned in the first edition of the Kew Hand-list of Herbaceous Plants, published in 1895, but it is recorded in the second edition of 1902. It had certainly been lost by 1925, when the third edition of the Hand-list was issued, but three years ago plants were purchased from America and one of these plants, flowering in the Alpine House in May last year, served as the model for our plate. Lewisia brachycalyx is an excellent subject for the alpine house; a low growing, compact, very free-flowering perennial, it produces a succession of its beautiful flowers over a period of two or three weeks. Moreover, it is very easy to grow, requiring only a well-drained loamy compost, liberal watering during the growing season, and rather dry conditions during the winter. According to Graham (l.c.) this species is * See the "Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew, During the Year 1875," p. 5 (1876). This record is substantiated by a specimen of a flower and leaf preserved in the Kew Herbarium.

Oreobroma brachycalyx Howell in Erythea