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Diels {Clathrospermum Mannii, Oliv.), is renamed P. diclina, Sprague. 

 A fuller description of Hibiscus crassineruis , Höchst., is given by 

 T. A. Sprague, who describes a new variety, minor j frorn Mt. Bizen, 

 Eritrea, collected by Schweinfurth & Riva, N^. 2053. Hibiscus 

 aponendrus, Sprague & Hutchinson, is separated from ^. ^ross3'/>mMS, 

 Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 205, non Thunb. and some new 

 localities quoted. 



The following new species are described: Hibiscus Wellbyi, 

 Sprague, from Abyssinia; H. nyikensis, Sprague, from Nyasa- 

 land; H. Gossweileri , Sprague, from British Somaliland, Drake- 

 Brockman, 336, 337; Malancantha obtusa, C. H. Wright, from 

 Lagos, Foster, 37; Faurea racemosa, Farmar, from Nj'asaland, 

 Adamson, 338; Panicunt {Echinochloa) haplocladum. Stapf, from 

 British Fast Africa, Hildebrandt, 1954—2022, Scott Elliot, 

 6291, Kässner, 455, and German East Africa, Speke & Grant, 

 Meiler. C. H. Wright. 



Bell,W., Charnwood Forest. (Abstract, British Association, p. 683. 



1907.) 



A vestige of this once extensive forest of the Midlands of 

 England was described by the author. The trees were nearly 

 exterminated and most of the present (Oak, Birch, Beech, Pine, etc.) 

 are the result of reafforestation. The flora was recorded in 1746 by 

 Pulteney, and a comparison is made with the present occurrence 

 and distribution. N. G. Smith. 



Buptt-Davy, J., Notes on some Transvaal Trees and Shrubs. 

 (Bull. Mise. Inform. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew. 1908. N". 4. p. 145—175.) 



These notes Supplement the account already given by Burtt-Davy 

 in the Transvaal] agricultural Journal, V. 1907. The material has been 

 compared with types at Kew, Zürich and Geneva. Twelve genera 

 and twenty-nine species have been added to the original list. The 

 totals for Transvaal trees and shrubs according to these notes are 

 57 families, 144 genera, 335 species. 



Acacia Davyi, N. E. Brown and Pseudocedrela caudata, Sprague 

 are described as new species. There is, among others, an interesting 

 note on Ficus cordata, Thunb., the Pretoria "Wonderboom." 



A. W. Hill. 



Cockayne, L., Note on the Cook Strait habitat of Veronica 

 macroura. (Trans. N. Zealand Inst., XXXIX. p. 381. 1907.) 



This species discovered by Colenso has not been observed in 

 recent years, but the author has found it again on rocks on shores 

 of Cook Strait. The semi-prostrate habit is retained under cultiva- 

 tion in sheltered places, and the author regards it as a variety of 

 the type form found in the East Cape district. W. G. Smith. 



Cockayne, L., Some observations on the Coastal Vegetation 

 of the South Island of New Zealand. Part I: General Re- 

 marks. (Trans. N. Zealand Inst., XXXIX. p. 313—359. 1907.) 



This, the introduction to a proposed series of papers, deals 

 with general facts relating to coastal Vegetation. The chief ecolo- 

 gical factors are salt in the soil, strong winds, great insolation and 

 a more equable climate than inland but still presenting wide local 



