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Bermuda Palmetto—The. (Gard. and For. iv. 302, f. 53). 
Illustrated description of Sabal Blackburniana. 
Bignonias. (Gard. xxxix. 10, 11, pl. 812. (colored). 
. The species figured in the plate is B. Tweediana. 
Botanical Collecting in the Tropical Andes. H. H. Rusby. 
‘Reprint from Bull. Pharm. April, 1891). 
Botanical Reminiscences. WH.H. Behr. (Zoé ii. 2-6). 
The author’s memoranda are of special interest from the fact 
that they date back to the days of the gold fever, when but little 
attention was paid to anything not mineral. Many species have 
been exterminated from localities where they were once abundant, 
and new species have been introduced. The “ Reminiscences” 
could be paralled in nearly every growing community. 
Botany of Fernando Noronha.—WNotes on the.. H. N. Ridley. 
(Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 1-95; four plates). 
The islands forming the group of Fernando Noronha lie in 
the Atlantic Ocean about 194 miles northeast from Cape San 
Roque, Brazil. They are of volcanic origin, and have never been 
connected with the main land. The group is about 8 miles long. 
Mr. Ridley gives a complete annotated list of all the plants now 
known to occur on these interesting islands, most of them having 
been collected by himself, Mr. G. A. Ramage and Rev. T. S. Lea 
during August and Semtember, 1887. The following new species 
are described, all of them endemic: Oxalis sylvicola, Schmt- 
delia insulana, Combretum rupicolum, Erythrina aurantiaca, 
Ceratosanthes angustiloba, C. cuneata, C. rupicola, Sesuvium 
distylum, Guettarda Leai, Palicourea insularis, Aspilia Ramagit, 
Bumelia fragrans, Jacquemontia euricola, Cuscuta globosa, Phy- 
salis visctda, Solanum botryophorum, Scoparia purpurea, Bignonia 
roseo-alba, Lantana amena, Croton odoratus, Acalypha Noronhe, 
Sapium sceleratum, Cyperus circinatus, Cyperus vialis, Cyperus 
Noronha, Paspalum anemotum, Paspalum phonoliticum, Gymno- 
pogon rupestre and Riccia Ridleyt, Gepp. 
In addition to these there are a few other endemic species 
known from the group, published for the most part in the Botany of 
the “Challenger” expedition, the total number thus being about 
40. Mr. Ridley points out that the remainder of the flora is 
