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numerous American species now known as Renealmln, the latter 

 generic name now falling as a synonym. Among the numerous 

 synonyms of Alpinia auct., non Linn., Laiu/uas is the earliest 

 available one for the numerous Old World species currently but 

 erroneously referred to Alpinia.'''' 



Similar notes, which suggest ample opportunity for those who 

 specialise in new combinations, are scattered throughout the paper: 

 Telosma cordafa {Asclepias cordata Burm. f.) replaces Pergularia 

 odoratissima Sm. — '• Pergularia of Linnaeus is the proper name for 

 the African species long placed in Dceniiar A number of Burman's 

 names taken up here had already been dealt with by Mr. Merrill 

 in his interesting notes on the Flora of Manila (Philipp. Journ. Sci. 

 (Bot.) vii. 227-251). 



The figure (which Mr. Merrill has not seen) cited by Burman 

 from Sloane's Hist. Jamaicensis as representing his Tricliomanes 

 nivea — "a species of unknown status" — is cited by Jenman in his 

 paper "On the Jamaican Ferns of Sloane's Herbarium" (Journ. 

 Bot. 1886, 85) as representing a variety {suhnuda) of Notliolcena 

 tricJiomanoides R. Br. 



It may be noted that the copy of the Flora Indica in the 

 Department of Botany, which was bought from a bookseller in 1882, 

 was at one time the pro])erty of Sir William Hooker ; it contains 

 numerous marginal notes and drawings from his pen and pencil. 



James Biuttek. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 15, Dr. llendle 

 showed two seedlings of Horse Chestnut from which the terminal bud 

 had been removed by cutting through the epicotyledonary stem. In 

 each case a number of minute buds appeared on the cut surface after 

 the healing of the wound ; the buds were arranged round the edge of 

 the section corresponding with the position of the cambium-layer in 

 the stem. A new shoot was also produced in the axil of each of the 

 cotyledons. These new shoots resembled the shoot which is normally 

 developed from the plumule, except that the first pair of foliage leaves 

 was produced at the second node, while a pair of small scales was 

 formed at the first node just above the level of the soil. The speaker 

 referred to the seedling shown by him at a recent meeting of the 

 Society in which the plumule had been replaced by one new sym- 

 metrically developed terminal bud. 



At the same meeting Mr. T. A. Sprague exhibited plants and 

 illustrations concerning his identification of Sison Ammi L., an 

 Umbelliferous plant jniblished by Linnaeus in the first edition of the 

 Species Plantarum in 1753 which has hitherto been a puzzle to 

 botanists. The elder Jacquin in 1773 identified it with a species now 

 known as Apium leptophyllum ; and Caruel in 1889 identified it with 

 Ptijchotis ammoides. But examination of the tyi^e-specimens in the 



