Mr. Charles H. Miller, Landscape Gardener, Fairmount Park, writes: " I think you told me that you had never seen the flower of Brownea grandiceps. Presuming that to be so, I have the pleasure to send you a specimen. With us it flowers twice a year, but the blooms in the spring are more numerous and larger".

[Until last year, when we had a specimen from the same source, we had never seen it in flower. The flowers, though belonging to a West Indian Leguminosas, are not papilionaceous, but would be taken by the mere lover of flowers, for a small rhododendron. Indeed, at some little distance one might imagine it to be a head of Rhododendron Catawbiense. Rare flowers are not always beautiful, but the great beauty of this flower has additional attractions, from the fact that the plant so rarely blossoms.

Sir William Hooker, noticing a rare chance to see it bloom in England, observed that the plant had a fashion of raising its leaflets, so as to cover the flowers at certain periods of the day. It would be interesting to know from Mr. Miller whether it has the same odd behavior in America. - Ed. G. M].