200 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



Britten, J. and Moore, Sp., Petalostigma Banksii sp. n. 



(Journal of Botany. Vol. XLI. July 1903. No. 487. p. 225 



—227. Plate 453.) 



This new species differs from Petalostigma quadriloculare in being 

 a shrub, in the leaves becoming puberulous or quite glabrous, in the 

 slender staminal column, which is glabrous below and pilose in the upper 

 part, and in tlie narrowly ovoid ovary with linear stlgmas. The descriptions 

 were made from a fruiting specimen, coUected by B a n ks and Solan der 

 during Cook's first voyage, which were further identified with flowering 

 examples, collected by R. Brown in 1802. F. E. Fritsch. 



Brown, N. E., New or Noteworthy Plant s. Caralluma 

 iiiversa N. E. Br. [n. sp.]. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 Vol. XXXIII. 3^1 series. 1903. No. 858. p. 354.) 



This South African species is very similar in habit to C. rf^/7£?A/rf^«s 

 N. E. Brown, but the colours of the flowers are exactly reversed and the 

 coronal structure is totally different. F. E. Fritsch. 



Brown, N. E., New or Noteworthy Plant s. Euphorbia 



Phillipslae N. E. Br. [n. sp.]. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Vol. XXXIII. S--" series. 1903. No. 859. p. 370—371.) 



This new species is very distinct, „being" of dwarf habit with 

 succulent, ribbed stems, beset with closely placed pairs of long straight 

 spines and bears small Clusters of yellow flowers, which are remarkably 

 small for the size and nature of the plant. It has been introduced from 

 British Somaliland. F. E. Fritsch. 



Chjfflot, J., Sur la structure de la graine de Nymphaea 

 flava Leitn. (Comptes rendus des seances de TAcademie 

 des sciences de Paris. T. CXXXVI. 22 juin 1903.) 



Cette graine est tres grosse; ses caracteres morphologiques 

 internes et externes permettent de distinguer le N. flava de 

 toutes les autres especes. Ces caracteres et en particulier les 

 hauts replis cuticulaires papilliiormes du tegument externe con- 

 iirment Tattribution de l'espece ä la sous-section speciale 

 Xanthantha et son eloignement de la sous-section Castalia, 



Lignier (Caen). 



Chiovenda, E., A proposlto deir Erbario di Gherardo 



Cibo. (Annali di Botanica del Prof. Pirotta. Vol. I. 



Fase. I. p. 49. Roma, 15 Maggio 1903.) 



L'auteur donne de nombreux et interessants renseignements sur la 

 vie de Gherardo Cibo — arriere neveu du pape Innocent VIII, — 

 sur ses relations personnelles avec les savants et les botanistes de son 

 epoque. Ensuite il donne une courte descriptlon de son herbier, decouvert 

 par Mr. E. Celani ä la bibliotheque Angelica de Rome. Cet 

 herbier forme pendant la premiere moitie du XVIe siecle est le plus 

 ancien herbier connu et d'un tres-grand interet pour l'histoire de la 

 botanique. F. Cortesi (Rome). 



Foster, M., The i den tity of 7/75 Hooker i and the Asian 

 /. setosa. (Rhodora. V. June 1903. p. 157—159.) 



The North American plant which has passed dt.?, Iris Hookeri 

 is considered not specifically separable from /. setosa, of which it is 

 made a variety canadensis. Trelease. 



