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A Preliminary Catalogue of New Zealand Plants Cultivated in Britain. By Professor A. Wall, Canterbury College, Christchurch. [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd April, 1929; received by Editor, 23rd April, 1929; issued separately, 30th November, 1929.] For convenience of reference the plants are grouped in genera, in alphabetical order, and the species within each genus are also in this order. Attention is concentrated upon those plants which are grown in the open. A preliminary attempt has been made to make the list of such plants exhaustive, but the plants grown in houses are certainly not all included here. New things are constantly coming in and new arrivals may or may not succeed, so that no list of this kind can be quite certainly completely comprehensive. The references to all plants grown at Kew are given on the authority of the published hand-lists and some of these plants have not been actually seen by myself. A note of interrogation is added whenever I have had reason to doubt the accuracy of the determination, whether my own or that of others. I shall be greatly obliged to growers into whose hands this list may come for any information about plants which have been overlooked here. Address: Professor Wall, Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand. The following abbreviations have been used: Ald. Aldenham House, Elstree, Herts: Hon. Vicary Gibbs. Camla Garden of F. W. Millard, Esq., East Grinstead, Sussex. Edin. Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. Gen. Plant in general cultivation, seen in many gardens, parks, etc. Guern. Guernsey, Channel Islands, generally the Nursery Gardens of Mr. de Putron (formerly Smith's). Hid. Garden of Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire: Major L. Johnson. (House) denotes that the plant is grown under protection, but in some cases it is only temporarily in house or frame and may be hardy in the open. Icomb. Garden of Icomb. Place, Gloucestershire: Capt. Simpson Hayward. Ing. Garden of Mr. Ingwerson, East Grinstead, Sussex. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London. Ludg. Garden of Ludgvan Rectory, near Penzance, Cornwall: Rev. A. T. Boscawen. Nurs. implies that the plant is stocked by nurserymen (but not necessarily by all nurserymen). S. & S. W. implies that the plant is grown in the South and South-West of England and is not hardy elsewhere. Most of these can also be grown, and many are grown, in Western Scotland and in Ireland. Tres. Gardens of Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly: Major Dorrien-Smith. Truro Nursery Gardens of Messrs. Treseder and Co. Truro, Cornwall. (Given on the authority of their catalogue).