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by Mr. Baker in this Journal (IS91, 1.07) and elsewhere, and with 

 several — e. g. lEemioniiis Ilosei — his name was associated. He 

 publislied a catahigue of the ferns of Borneo in the Journal of the 

 Straits Branch K. A. S. nos. 32, 31-84 (1899). He is also com- 

 memorated in the beautiful climber Ilosea Lohhiana (based on 

 Clerodendron Lobhianum C. B. Clarke), which he cultivated for 

 many years in his garden at Kuching in Sarawak. This garden 

 contained many interesting and beautiful plants, which Hose had 

 brought from the Borneo forests. Towards the close of his stay in 

 the East, he collected and studied the grasses and sedges of Borneo, 



For much of the above information we are indebted to a notice 

 (accompanied by an excellent portrait) by Mr. H. N. llidle}^ published 

 in the Journal of the Straits Branch 11. A. S. no. 57 (1910). In 

 a letter to us, Mr. Ridley, who speaks of Hose as "an exceptionally 

 pleasant and delightful companion," thus refers to his versatility in 

 liinguages : " He could conduct services in English, Malay, Chinese, 

 and Dyak, whichever race formed the bulk of the congregation : one 

 Sunday, most were Chinese, but halfwa}^ through a travelling pai-ty 

 of Dyaks drop])ed into the church, so he stopped his Chinese j^niyers 

 etc. and gave his sermon in Dyak." 



The Bishop's nephew, Charles Hose, collected in 1894—5 in the 

 Baram district of Sarawak and North Celebes ; his Monocotyledons are 

 described by Dr. liendle in this Journal for 1901, pp. 173-9. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Ceeastium pumilum in Sussex. In the Journal for 1902, 214, 

 the late E. S. Marshall recorded this species from Oxen Down as a 

 plant new to Sussex. He very kindW sent me specimens which were 

 mounted and put awa}^ Having recently examined somewhat closely 

 this species and allies, I felt sure these Oxen Down examples could 

 be only C. tetrandrum ; Mr. J. W. White, who knows (7. j)umihnn 

 in the dark, confirms my suspicions. Whilst this re-naming cuts the 

 ground under C. pumilum as a plant of Sussex, it is pleasant to be 

 able to reinstate the species on the same page. When botanizing 

 on Highdown Hill, Clapham (v.c. 13), in April 1921, I came across 

 a small colony of undoubted pumilum, which, although dwarf (barely 

 an inch high), was unmistakeable. — C. E. Salmon. 



Sandoricum koetjape and Dendrobium caninum. On p. 210 

 the Editor notices Mr. Merrill's Review of the New Species of Plants 

 proposed Jry N. L. Burman in his Flora Indica, and quotes several 

 new combinations created by Mr. Merrill. Among these are Sandori- 

 cum koetjape as a new combination for the plant usually known as 

 S. indicum, and Dendrohium caninum for i). crumenatum. 



The Sandoricum described by Burman as Melia hoetjape and 

 combined into Sandoricum hoetjape by Mr. Merrill is not, as tlie 

 latter states, S. indicum Cav. but S. nervosum Blurae (Bijdr. 163), 

 who gives as the native name, Ki Kadjapi. This species was again 

 described by King (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiv, 21) as S. radiatum; 

 it is very distinct from S. indicum Cav. The barbarous word 

 *' koetjape " which Mr. Merrill adopts as a specific name is a Dutch 



