4:86 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



begiiiuiiig of the twentieth century. The price of each set will be 

 two guineas. 



By the death of Alfeed Hutchinson Smee, botany as well as 

 horticulture has lost an intelligent supporter. Though Mr. Smee 

 would probably Jiave disclaimed the style of botanist, he was cer- 

 tainly attached to the study of that science. The son of Mr. 

 Alfred Smee — who made a garden on a piece of marsh land along 

 the course of the Wandle near the watercress beds at Mitcham, 

 and wrote a book about it, Mi/ Garden, well known to garden- 

 lovers — he had gone on with the work on his father's lines. In a 

 comparatively small area he had continued the accumulation of a 

 large selection of interesting plants. I look back with pleasure to 

 a long hour which he devoted one evening last May to showing me 

 some of what he termed his " rubbish," by which he meant plants 

 of botanic rather than horticultural interest. The immediate 

 object of my visit was a riiilodendron which proved a new species, 

 and was described in a recent number of this Journal (p. 277). 

 But he had also an interesting, if small, collection of orchids, and, 

 among other things, a splendid specimen of Cytbua Adami in full 

 flower, showing the yellow, purple, and intermediate colours on 

 distinct branches. Mr. Smee was conducting a series of experi- 

 ments on this curious tree — rearing young trees from seeds of 

 flowers of the respective colours, in order to study the course of 

 variation. Mr. Smee was a member of the Council of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, and also took great interest in promoting hor- 

 ticulture in his own neighbourhood. He was, in fact, a most active 

 and useful man in all matters of local interest. He was born in 

 Finsbury Cu'cus in 1841, and died at his house, The Grange, 

 Hackbridge, on November 8th. — A. B. R. 



The latest addition to the handsome monographs of African 

 plants issued under the editorship of Prof. Eugler is the Anonacea;, 

 which have been undertaken by the editor and Dr. Diels. Thirty 

 admirable plates accompany the monograph, in which many new 

 genera are established, apparently on slight grounds. The new 

 parts of Dan Pjianzenreich contain the iSymplocacecB, by Dr. A. Brand, 

 and the Raffledacece and Hydnoracea, by Graf zu Solms-Laubach. 



The first part of vol. Ix of the Aniuds of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, consists of "a second century of new and rare 

 Indian plants," by Sir G. King, Dr. Prain, and Mr. J. F. Duthie. 

 A new genus of Leguminosae, Leucosteyanc, is established by Dr. 

 Prain on his Saraca latixlipulata ; the excellent plates have been 

 drawn by native artists under his supervision. A beautiful photo- 

 gravure oi Albizzia liichardiana forms the frontispiece to the volume. 



The fourth part of Mr. F. M. Bailey's Queendand Flora contains 

 the orders Hydrophyllacece to Ela^aynacae, with 18 plates, illustrating 

 Nepenthes and other genera of special interest. 



We are indebted to the Editors of The Garden for permission to 

 reproduce, as frontispiece to the present volume, the very excellent 

 portrait of Mr. J. G. Baker which appeared in their issue for Nov. 9. 



