L. REEVE AND CO.’S PUBLICATIONS. 9 
FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. By Dantex Ottver, 
F.R.S., F.L.S. Vols. I. and IL, 20s. each. Published under the authority 
of the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works. 
This important and much-needed work embodies the researches of a long list 
of explorers, the results of whose labours have been accumulating at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, and other museums, for many years past. The present volume 
contains the Orders Ranunculucee to Connaracea. 
HANDBOOK OF THE NEW ZEALAND FLORA; a 
Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand, and the Chat- 
ham, Kermadec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s Islands. 
By Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. Demy 8vo. Part I., 16s.; Part I1., 14s. ; 
or complete in one vol., 30s. Published under the auspices of the Govern- 
ment of that colony. 
A compendious account of the plants of New Zealand and outlying islands, 
published under the authority of the Government of that colony. The first 
Part contains the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Tycopods; the Second the re- 
maining Orders of Cryptogamia, or Flowerless Plants, with Index and Cata- 
logues of Native Names and of Naturalized Plants. 
FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS; a Description of the Plants of 
the Australian Territory. By Gzorce Bentuam, F.R.S, President of the 
Linnean Society, assisted by FErpINAND MueLter, F.R.S., Government 
Botanist, Melbourne, Victoria. Demy 8vo. Vols. I. to V., 20s. each. Pub- 
lished under the auspices of the several Governments of Australia. 
The materials for this great undertaking, the present volumes of which contain 
three thousand closely-printed pages, are derived not only from the vast collee- 
tions of Australian plants brought to this country by various botanical travel- 
lers, and preserved in the herbaria of Kew and of the British Museum, includ- 
ing those hitherto unpublished of Banks and Solander, of Captain Cook’s first 
Voyage, and of Brown in Flinders’, but from the very extensive and more re- 
cently collected specimens preserved in the Government Herbarium of Mel- 
bourne, under the superintendence of Dr. Ferdinand Mueller. The descriptions 
re written in plain English, and are masterpieces of accuracy and clearness. 
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FLORA HONGKONGENSIS; a Description of the Flow- 
ering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong. By Grorce Ben- 
THAM, P.L.S. With a Map of the Island. Demy 8vo, 550 pp., 16s. 
Published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the 
Colonies. 
The Island of Hongkong, though occupying an area of scarcely thirtv square 
miles, is characterized by an extraordinarily varied Flora, partaking, however, of 
that of South Continental China, of which comparatively little is known. The 
number of Species enumerated in the present volume is 1056, derived chiefly 
from materials collected by Mr. Hinds, Col. Champion, Dr. Hance, Dr. Harland. 
Mr. Wright, and Mr. Wilford. 
