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No. 8 of The Flowering Plants of South Africa (Reeve & Co.) 

 contains platos and descriptions of Dauhemja aurca var. coccinea, 

 Stapelia Pillansil var. attenuata^ Mesemhri/antheimini crassijyes 

 Maiioth, sp. n., Leucospermum tottum var. (jlahriim, Ornithogalnm 

 Roodece Phillips, sp. n., Protea recondita, Crossandra Greenstock/i, 

 Boodia digitifoUa N. E. Br., gen. nov. (Musembryeae), Bauhinia 

 Galpinii, and Klattia Stokoei. 



In the most recent part (vol. xxxiii. pt. 1; Sept. 15, 1922) of the 

 North American Flora, P. A. lljdberg elaborates the Anihrosiacece 

 and CarduacecB, the Vernoniece being undertaken by H. A. Gleason. 

 Mr. Uydberg raises Asa Gray's section Chorisiva to generic rank, 

 and similarly elevates Franseria Bri/antii Curran under the name 

 Acanthamhrosia ; nmnerous new species are described by both 

 authors. 



The Kew Bulletin (no. S) is chiefly occupied by descriptions of 

 new Siamese plants by Mr. W. G. Craib ; Mr. W. H. Pearson has a 

 note on Jungermannia hiimilis Hook. f. & Ta3'lor, which he refers to 

 Leioscyphus ; incidentally he has examined four specimens, named by 

 Stephani Lophocolea humilis, which he refers to four widely dif- 

 ferent species, two of them here described as new. 



The Rev. Joseph Jacob has published in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 (July 2, Sept. 2, Oct. 28) three interesting papers on " Gardeners' 

 Kalendars " ranging in date from Evelyn's Kalendarium ILortense 

 (1G01<) to G. W. Johnson's Gardener's Almanack (1818). In the 

 number for Nov. 4, Mr. R. P. Brotherston makes some additions to 

 the list. 



The Ocioh^Y Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South 

 Africa contains an article by H. A. Melle on " Hubaiu Clover " 

 (Melilotus alba var. annua) which has been found invaluable as winter 

 feed for live stock. The plant is a rapid grower, attaining in one season 

 the height of 38 feet ; as a bee-plant it is unequalled. 



The General Index to the Keio Bulletin for 1887-1918 (Station- 

 ery Office, Is. 6d. n.), although issued in 1920, only reached the 

 Department of Botany last month, but its importance seems to justify 

 this late reference to its appearance, A prefatory note, presumably 

 by the late Director, gives some account of its inception and execu- 

 tion ; " it was originally proposed to issue the Bulletin only occasion- 

 ally and whenever matter of sufficient interest had accumulated ; it 

 was, however, at once found necessary to publish it regularly " — a 

 statement which will amuse those who remember the notorious irre- 

 gularity which characterised the appearance of the Bulletin for many 

 years before it came under the superintendence of Sir David Prain, 

 under whom it became the important publication which it still 

 remains. A list of the actual dates of the issue of the numbers 

 might usefully have been included in the present volume. 



Me. Ronald D'Otley Good, B.A., Scholar of Downing College, 

 C.imbridge, has been appointed Assistant in the Department of 

 Botany, British Museum. 



