Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 311 



Bscknell, E. P., S t u d i e s in Sisyrinchium. X. The species 



of California. (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



XXXI. p. 379—391. July 1904.) 



Eight species, of which the following are new : 5. oreophilum, S. 

 Greenei, S. Eastwoodiae, S. funerenm, and 5. hesperium. Trelease. 



Bourdillon, J. F, Diallcum travancoricum, a new species. 



(Indian Forester. Vol. XXX. No. 6. June 1904.) 



This is a magnificent evergreen tree occurring in the forests of 

 South Travancore near Poumudi between 1000 and 2000 ft. and 

 very local. It is 100 ft. high, with a stem-diameter of 3 ft. It flowers 

 in July to September. The fruit ripens from May to June. The fruit is 

 called by the hillmen the „lull tamarind". The endocarp is bright red 

 and is greedily eaten by birds of all kinds. The wood is strong and 

 useiul, but never used. The tree is worth cultivating on account of its 

 ornamental appearance. The leaflets are more numerous and broader 

 than in D. ovoideum of Ceylon; the flowers are nearly globose on stout 

 short pedicels and are covered with tomentum, while in D. ovoideum the 

 flowers are long and pointed, glabrous, and borne on long, slender stalks; 

 the anthers are subsessile, but in D. ovoideum the filaments are as long 

 as the anthers; the fruit is round and compressed, while in D. ovoideum it 

 is ovoid and the endocarp is buff-coloured. In Gamble's „Manual of Indian 

 Timbers" the tree is provisionally named D. coromandelianum Houtt. 

 H o u 1 1 u y n's tree is not the same as the one under discussion. Illustrations 

 of the habit, flower, fruit and seed are given on an accompanying plate. 



W. C. Worsdell. 



COOK, 0. F., The nomenclatur e of the royal palms. 

 (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. XXXI. p. 349—355.) 



An analysis of the litterature of Oreodoxa regia and related palms 

 leads to a division of the tribe Acristeae into Roystonea Cook, with 

 R. regia (H. B. K.) as type ; Hyospathe Martius, with H. elegans Martius 

 as type; Prestoea Hook., with P. pubigera (Griseb. and Wendl.) as type; 

 Jessenin Karsten, with /. polycarpa Karsten as type; Oenocarpus Martius, 

 with O. distichus Martius as type; Oreodoxa Willd v with O. acuminata 

 Willd. as type ; Plectis Cook n. g., with P. Oweniana Cook n. sp. as 

 type; Acrista Cook, with A. monticola Cook as type; and Catis Cook, 

 with C. Martiana Cook (Euterpe oleracea Martius) as type. 



Trelease. 



KRAEPELIN, K., Excursionsflora für Nord- und Mittel- 

 deutschland. (5. Aufl. Leipzig u. Berlin [B. G. Teubner] 

 1903. 365 pp. 566 Abb. Pr. 4 Mk.) 



Die Neuauflage der rühmlichst bekannten Flora giebt jetzt ein fast 

 vollständiges Verzeichniss der im Gebiete vorkommenden Pflanzen. Die 

 Zahl der sehr instructiven Figuren ist sehr vermehrt. In dem 20 pp. 

 langen Verzeichniss der gebrauchten Kunstausdrücke ist fast die ganze 

 äussere Morphologie gegeben. Die Anleitung zum Anlegen eines Her- 

 bariums wird dem Anfänger willkommen sein. Schindler. 



LlNDMAN, C. A. M., Crataegus calycina Peterm. i Sveriges 

 ilora. (Botaniska Notiser. H. 3. 1904. Mit Textfigur.) 



Die Gattung Crataegus hat in Schweden ausser oxyacantha und 

 monogyna wenigstens noch eine Art, nämlich die mit der letzteren ver- 

 wechselte C. calycina Peterm. (Deutschlands Flora 1S49), welche in den 



