Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 61 



Williams Frederic N|ewton], On lanfke, a genus of Hypoxi- 

 daceae. (Jotirnal of Botany, London. XXXIX. 1901. p. 289 

 —294. plate 425.) 



A revision of a group of plants including Fabricla Thunb. 

 in part, and Hypoxis, section lanthe. Most of the species are 

 foimd in Cape Colony, a few in Australia and Tasmania, and 

 one in New-Zealand. The author gives the history of the genus, 

 which was first defined by Salisbury and published long after 

 his death, in 1866, an analytical clavis, and a provisional iist of 

 species, those renamed are as under. 



Transferred from Fabricia, are the two cited by Salisbury as 

 /. alba and /. serrata; from Hypoxis, I. linearis and /. ovata, also by 

 Salisbury, the rest are due to the author, namely, /. aquatica, I. cur- 

 cnligoides, I. glabella, I. gracilipes, I. leptantha, I. Maximiliani, I. minuta, 

 I. ntonophylla, I. occidentalis, I. pusilla, I. Schlechteri, I. stellata and 

 /. umbralicola. Of /. stellata a Photographie reproduction is given from 

 the specimen in the herbarium of Linnaeus. 



B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Trail, James W[illiam1 H[elenus], Progress of botany in 

 Scotland. (Annais of the Scottish Natural History Society. 

 Edinburgh. 1901. p. 217—227.) 



The author first gives a short account of the early workers 

 on the local flora down to the present day, with its specialised 

 methods, in conclusion suggesting lines of further study, such 

 as the criticai examination of the flora in comparison with Con- 

 tinental floras, distribution in space and in altitude, with graphic 

 methods of tabulating the results; natural associations of plants 

 and other oecologic data, diseases, folk-lore of plants, and early 

 Instruction in schools of the objects in nature which Surround 

 them. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Brown, N. E., New o r n o t e w o r t h y plants. Cotyledon nana 



N. E. Brown. (Gard. Chron. London. Ser. 3, 30. p. 270. 



1901.) 



Described from a plant sent from south Africa by Prof. Mac Owan 

 to Kew, where it has recently flowered; it is near C. hemisphaerica 

 Linn., but has smaller leaves entirely destitute of any apiculus, and are 

 yellowish green in tint. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Brown, N. E., New o r n o t e w o r t h y plants. Stapelia macu- 

 losoides N. E. Brown. (Gard. Chron. London. Ser. 3, 30. 

 p. 270. 1901.) 



Near 5. maculosa Jacq., but without raised annulus on the diso and 

 differing in Corona! lobes and stems. 



B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



Brown, N. E., New or noteworthy plants. Ceropegia 

 Lugardae. (Gard. Chron. London, Ser. 3, 30. p. 302. 1901.) 



Discovered near Lake Nyami by mrs. Lugard in 1898, grown from 

 seeds presented to Kew by Capt. Lugard, flowered in October 1901. It 

 belongs to the same group as C. Thwaitesü Hook., but the flowers diffe- 

 rent in colour. B. Daydon Jackson (London). 



