16 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
material or publications from the Garden; and 382,156, 
representing 139 entries, for which $3,032.18 was expended, 
were purchased. Of this expenditure, $1,300.18 was for 
plants for the North American tract. 
Among the notable gifts of the year should be men- 
tioned four magnificent Hawaiian tree-ferns, presented by 
Mr. James Gibb, whose interest was secured through Mr. 
Jared G. Smith, a former Assistant at the Garden; two 
tree-ferns, presented by Dr. J. C. Willis, Director of the 
botanical garden at Peradeniya, Ceylon; a mature staminate 
DIAGRAM A. 
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400 
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CONSIGNMENTS OF PLANTS, 
plant of Cycas revoluta, presented by Mr. W. T. James of 
Bermuda; and 78 orchids, presented by the New York 
Botanical Garden. 
The number of consignments of plants since 1898, with 
the average for the last five years, is presented on the 
accompanying diagram, which shows two periods of un- 
usual activity, the first, in 1900, due to the energy of Mr. 
P. T. Barnes, then Plant Recorder at the Garden, and the 
second, in 1903, largely a result of the energy of the Super- 
intendent, Mr. H. C. Irish. 
