Floristik, Geographie, Systematik etc. 373 



mollis, and Hymenopyvamis siamensis. The species of Tephvosia are 

 described jointly with J. R. Drummond. W. G. Craib. 



Beccari, O., The Palms Indigenous to Cuba. (Pomona Coli. 

 Journ. Ec. Bot. II. p. 253-276. 1912.) 



The author gives a conspectus of 14 genera ot which three 

 namely, Oreodoxa, Pseudophoenix, and Gaussia are treated in detail. 

 The article contains as new: Oreodoxa princeps. 



J. M. Greenman. 



Blake, F. S., The forms of Peltandra virginica. (Rhodora. XIV. 

 p. 102—106. pl. 94. 1912.) 



Contains the following new names and new combinations with 

 name-bearing synonym: Peltandra virginica f. latifolia {P. latifolia 

 Raf.), P. virginica f. rotundata, P. virginica f. hastifolia, P. virginica 

 f. branchyota, P. virginica f. heterophylla (P. heterophylla Raf), and 

 P. virginica f. angustifolia (P. angustifolia Raf.). 



J. M. Greenman. 



Brandegee, T. S., Plantae Mexieenae Purpusianae, IV. 



(Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. IV. p. 269—281. 1912.) 



Contains as new: Tradescantia collina, Boerhaavia ciliata, Phi- 

 ladelphus Purpusii, Oxyrhynchus volubilis gen. et sp. nov. Legumi- 

 nosarnm, Phaseollis Purpusii, Brongniartia discolor, Tephrosia poto- 

 sina, Polygala nitida, P. tehuacana, Argithamnia argentea, Buxus 

 lancifolia, Rhamnus Purpusii, Trichilia Schiedeana var. Purpusii, 

 Sida tehuacana, Sphaeralcea? fruticosa, Fraxinus potosina, Sabbatia 

 Purpusii, Mandevillea potosina, Fischeria? alata, Asclepias longipe- 

 dunculata, A. rafaelensis, Philibertia anomala, Physalis campanulata , 

 Beloperone guttata, Salvia lentiginosa, Hymenatherum setifolium var. 

 radiatum, Bidens integrifolia, Calea Brandegei Greenman, Aspilia 

 potosina, Sclerocarpus frutescens, Pinaropappus multicaulis. 



J. M. Greenman. 



Dünn. S. T., A supplemen tary list of Chinese flowering 

 plants 1904—1912. fjourn. Linn. Soc. Bot. London. XXXIX. 

 p. 409—581. 1911.) 



A list of the new species of flowering plants described from 

 China since the publication of the last part of Korbes and 

 Hemsley's Enumeration in 1904 up to the end of 1910. The 

 list, which is in alpbabetical order, includes also references to other 

 published additions to the flora and to specimens in the Kew Her- 

 barium verifying additions not previously notified. It is shown that 

 at the present time something like 300 new species are being 

 published annually from this region and about one third of that 

 number of other new records. Berberis amoena, Dünn, Primula 

 delicatula, Dünn, Rhododendron atroviride, Dünn, Symplocos Ernesti,. 

 Dünn, and Stachys cardiophylla, Prain are new combinations. 



S. T. Dünn. 



Dünn, S. T., Ostryocarpus and a new allied genus Ostryoderris. 

 (Kew Bull. Mise. Inform. p. 362—364. 1911.) 

 The readjustment of the genus Ostryocarpus is proposed by the 



