58 Florlstik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



An introduction of seven pages gives a short account of 

 the history of the Islands in question, forming in legal phrase 

 the „Bailiwick of Guernsey". The langest of the Channel Islands, 

 Jersey, is expressly excluded from this volume. The plan is 

 explained as supplying separate lists for each island, with a 

 summary showing a total of 2653 phanerogams furnishing 82S 

 species, pteridophytes 29, bryophytes 197, Fungi 524, Lichens 

 3v34 and Algae b41. Each island has an opening description, 

 remarks on climate, geology, prevalence of Vegetation and the 

 like, The indexes which dose the volume, extend to seventeen 

 pages. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Deane, Henry and Maiden, J[oseph] H[enry|, Observations on 

 the Eucalypts of Ne w-S o uth-VVal es. (Sydney, Procce- 

 dings Linnean Society, N.-S.-Wales. XXVI. '{901. p. 122 



— 144.) 



Chiefly observations on the varying forms of the fruit in the genus 

 Eucalyptus and the characters thereby afforded, with the description of 

 a new species, E. fastiglata, Deane et Maiden, p. 123. 



B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



New Orchids. — De c ade 2 5. (Kew Bulletin. London 1901. 

 p. 146—150. nn. 241—250.) 



Descriptions by Mr. R. A. Rolfe of novelties from various 

 coimtries as noted thus : 



Masdevallia veiiosa Colombia, Dendrobiuni capituliflorum New- 

 Guinea, D. punicenm New-Guinea, D. quinarium New-Guinea, D. inae- 

 quale New-Guinea, Cirrhopetaluin appendiculatiim India, Panisea tricallosa 

 Assam, Catasetiim quodridens Hab. ?, Ornithocephalus multiflorus BraziU 

 Aerauthcs caiidata Madagascar. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Decades Kewenses plantarum novarum in Herbario 

 Horti Regii conservatarum. (Kew Bulletin, p. 138 



— 145. Decades XXXIV— XXXV. nn. 331—350. London 

 1901.) 



Contributions of new species, with descriptions mostly by 



members of the staff, with some added by experts working in 



the Herbarium. The new plants are as under : 



Pterospermum Proteus Burkill, China ; Oxalis dispar N. E. Brown, 

 Guiana (described in the „Botanical Magazine" in the previous month, 

 September); Dioclea megacarpa RoUe, Tropical America; Sophora Bakeri 

 C. B. Clarke, India ; Begonia peristegia Stapf, Brazil ; Acomis Lesteri 

 Burkill, Australia; Hoya subcalva Burkill, New-Guinea; Ceropegia per- 

 forata N. E. Brown, New-Guinea ; Echidnopsis Bentii N. E. Brown (an 

 earlier description will be found in the „Botanical Magazine", tab. 77()0), 

 Arabia; Caralluma torta N. E. Brown, Arabia?; Boea hians, Burkill. 

 New-Guinea; Clerodendron Curtisü H. H. W. Pearson, Malaya; Aristo- 

 lochia gracillima Hemsl., China; Elatostema peltatum Hemsl. , Fiji ; 

 Hippeastrum teretifoliunt C. H. Wright, Uruguay; Cheilanthes trifurcata 

 Baker, Brazil; Asplenlum macrodictyon Baker, Columbia; A. Wallisii, 

 Baker, Columbia; Polypodium Bangii Baker, Bolivia ; Acrostichum cele- 

 biciim Baker, Celebes. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



