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in the first the leaves are simple and the pod is one-seeded, short, 

 recurved, and sickle-shaped ; in the second the leaves are also simple 

 and the pod is one-seeded, but it is very small, globose, and smooth ; 

 while in the third the pod is oblong and two-seeded. In the Flora 

 of India these plants are, we think correctly, placed in three sub- 

 genera — the first in Acanthonofus Benth., the second in Sphceridio- 

 jphora Desv., and the third in Euindicjofera Benth. Mr. Gamble 

 defines the Hedysareas as having the " pod jointed if more than one 

 seeded "; but in the clavis to the genera o£ the tribe it is noted that in 

 some of them, such as Pycnospora, with 6-10 seeds, the pod is not 

 distinctly jointed. It is worth considering whether this would not 

 be better placed next to Crotularia, for which, notwithstanding its 

 diadelphous stamens, it certainly has on more than one occasion been 

 mistaken. 



This part is entirely the work of Mr. Gamble, with the exception of 

 the analyses and descriptions of Tephrosia which are by Mr. J. R. 

 Drummond. We have only to add that it is very neatly printed and 

 remarkably free from typographical errors. 



E. G. B. 



Plantae Thunhergianae : eln Verzeiclinis der von C. P. Thunherg 

 in Siid-Afrika, Indien und Japan gesammelten und der in 

 seinen Schriften heschreihenen oder erio'dhnten Pflanzeiif 

 soioie von den Fxemplaren derselhen. die ion Herbarium Thiin- 

 hergianum in Upsala aujbewahrt sind ; zusammengestellt von 

 H. O. JuEL. 8vo, pp. 4G2. Uppsala: A.-B. Akademiska 

 Bokhandeln. 1917. 



The main facts of Carl Peter Thunberg's life, as presented here, 

 can be told in a few words. Born in 1743, at the instigation of the 

 two Burmanns whose acquaintance he had made at Amsterdam, 

 he left Holland at the end of 1770 to amass, as events were to 

 prove, those valuable collections with which his name will ever be 

 associated. 



Proceeding first to the Cape of Good Hope then, of course, in 

 Dutch hands, he remained there until 1775. Mr. 'Juel traces the 

 journeys in South Africa, three in number, the two last in company 

 with Francis Masson, one of Banks's numerou-? proteges. Thunberg's 

 eyes were then turned to Japan, at that time, and not to botanists 

 only, in large measure a terra incognita. Trade with Japan was, at 

 the period in question, a monopoly of the Dutch East India Company, 

 and the country, so far as it was open at all, was so to the Dutch 

 alone. The position of ship's doctor gave the Swede his opportunity, 

 and some official journeys into the interior, supplementing his own 

 efforts at the coast, and assistance rendered by Japanese " brother 

 brushes " of the scalpel in return for medical information, enabled 

 him to return to Batavia with much valuable spoil. Thence after a 

 few montlis he sailed for Ceylon where, for some little time, he 

 botanised in low-lying districts, leaving unvisited the uplands of the 

 interior. He reappeared at Amsterdam towards the end of 1778, 

 and after a short visit to London, where he enjoyed the hospitality of 



