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Haworthia columnaris, n. sp. — Leafy stem short. Eosette 

 3 in. diam. Leaves about 30, multifarious, obovate-cuneate, all 

 ascending, not recurved, |-1 in. long, ^ in. broad, ^ in. thick, 

 minutely cuspidate, dull green, pellucid towards the apex for a 

 quarter of an inch, with greenish brown vertical lines, the margin 

 furnished with minute lanceolate or lanceolate-deltoid deflexed or 

 spreading pellucid teeth. Peduncle simple, ^ ft. long. Kaceme 

 simple, nearly a foot long; lower pedicels short; bracts lanceolate- 

 deltoid, ^-^ in. long. Perianth f in. long ; limb half as long as 

 the tube. 



Hab. Described from a living plant in the Kew collection that 

 flowered in 1884, received from Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter. Belongs 

 to the group DenticulatcB, near H. affiiiis and hilineata. 

 (To be continued.) 



BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF BEITISH AND lEISH 

 BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and Gr. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 21). 



Gourlie, Robert (d. 1832 ?) : d. Mendoza, 1832 ? Collected in 

 ChiH. Bot. Misc. iii. 208. GourUea Gilhes. 



Gourlie, William (1815-1856): b. Glasgow, March, 1815; d. 

 Pollockshields, Glasgow, 24th June, 1856. F.L.S. , 1855, 

 Pupil of W. J. Hooker and J. H. Balfour. Collected Bristol pi., 

 especially mosses, fossil pL, &c., and purchased large foreign 

 collections. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1857, xxvii. 



Govan, George (fl. 1824). M.D. Correspondent of Wallich. 



'Nat. Hist Himalayan Mts.,' Edin. Journ. Science, iii. 



17 (1824). E. S. C. ii. 973 ; Lasegue, 128. Hypericwn Govan- 

 ianum Wall. 



Gowen, James Robert (fl. 1823). Of Highclere, Newbury. 'Hy- 

 brid AmarylUs,' Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. & v. E. S. C. ii. 973. 

 Govenia Lindl. 



Grsefer, John (fl. 1789). Botanic Gardener to the King of Naples. 

 * Descriptive Cat. of ... . Herbaceous or Perennial PI.,' 1789 ; 

 ed. 4, 1804. 



Graham, John (1805-1839) : b. Dumfriesshire, 1805 ; d. Khan- 



dalla, Bombav, 28th May, 1839. * Catalogue of pi in 



Bombay,' 1839 (posthumous). Pritz. 127; Jacks. 387; Pref. 

 Cat. Bombay PI. iv. ; Gard. Chron. 1841, 23; Hooker & Thom- 

 son's ' Flora Indica, i. 53 ; E. S. C. ii. 977 ; Lasegue, 433. 



Graham, Maria, nee Dundas, afterwards Calcott [See Calcott] . 



Graham, Robert (1786-1845) : b. Stirling, 7th Dec. 1786 ; 

 d. Coldoch, Perth, 7th Aug. 1845. M.D. , Edin., 1808. F.L.S., 

 1825. Husband of preceding. Eegius Prof. Bot. Glasgow, 

 1813; Edinburgh, 1818. Pres. Bot. Soc. Edin. 1838. Described 

 Wallich's Lcymiimo^(B. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1831, 1832; 

 Pritz. 127; Jacks. 234; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 1846; Proc. 



