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if genuine, certainly to Acacia nUotica, since Acacia Farnesiana, 

 Willd. (arab. ntn), is indeed cultivated abundantly in Egypt as 

 in the Mediterranean countries generally, on account of the deli- 

 cious violet smell of theii' flowers, but has been introduced there 

 lately, and probably comes originally from tropical America. — 



A. and M.] 



(To be continued.) 



Part 89 of Baron von Mueller's ' Fragmenta Phytographise 

 Australia! ' contains some of the results of his recent expedition to 

 the subtropical parts of Western Australia, including many species 

 not previously known to grow there, and several novelties. Among 

 these is a small prostrate yellow-flowered CapseUa ; to this genus 

 are also referred the Australian species hitherto placed in Thlaspi. 

 A description is given of the extra-tropical West Australian palm, 

 Livistona Mari(E, identical with Giles' Central Australian one. The 

 Palms called Areca Normanbyi and Arem/a (^Sayuerus) australasica 

 are now both referred to Ptijchosperma after an examination of 

 flowers, hitherto unknown. Phacellothrix is a new genus of Com- 

 positcc founded on Helichrijsum. cladochcetum, F. M., and differing 

 from the latter genus in its tailless anthers. The smallest Orchid 

 in the world, formerly placed in Denclrohium, is fully described as 

 BolboplujUum minntissiimim. 



A SECOND edition of Mr. Edgeworth's book on " Pollen " (Hard- 

 wicke and Bogue), has been published. It has been revised 

 throughout, and the greater part of the errors and misprints of the 

 previous edition have been corrected. But there still remain some 

 curious and confusing names, and some transpositions or misplace- 

 ments, such as Astilbe for Astelia, and Corispermum for Comesperma. 



The January part of ' Hooker's Icones Plantarum ' contains 

 Plates 1276-1300. The order E^iphorbiacetB is chiefly illustrated. 

 Choriophyllum (tab. 1280) is a new genus of PhyllantliecE from the 

 Malay Peninsula and islands ; and Dica^lia, from Borneo, and 

 Masobotrya, from Central Africa, belong to the same tribe. The 

 curious short-podded Cardamine paradoxa, Hance, is figured 

 (tab. 1285), and the remarkable Euphrasia disperma, Hook., f. (tab. 

 1283), is made a subgenus under the name Anayospenna. 



We learn from the Annual Eeport for 1878 of the Eoyal Botanic 

 Society, that seeds of the Victoria reyia, which were sent to Zanzibar 

 for introduction into Lake Nyassa, have vegetated there, and the 

 experiment likely to be successful. The Society has received from 

 Mr. Ct. Waller a living plant of the African India-rubber plant, 

 L((]id()lj)}iia flurida. 



The Botanical Locality Eccord Club has issued its Eeport for 

 1877, the fifth year of its existence, and concludes with it its first 

 volume. Among the " new county records " the most interesting are 

 those from South Lincolnshire, the flora of which has been largely 

 increased. In the "general locality list" are included several 

 Channel Islands records. How long will it be before British 

 botanists generally will be able to resist entering these French 



