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glabra, limbis ovalibus albidis (sicco) obtusis vel rotundatis 

 3-35 mm. latis in unguem sulcatum attenuatis. Stamina petalis 

 subaequilonga, glaberrima. Stylus crasse filiformis, 5 mm. longus, 

 glaber, stigmate truncate 



The recognition of A. barosmoides should offer no particular 

 difficulties in view of the Barosma-like facies of this species. The 

 specimen upon which the preceding description has been founded 

 is preserved in the British Museum, and was collected by Niven, 

 one of the earlier travellers, on alpine stony places in Lange 

 Kloof, in the Uniondale district of Cape Colony. 



Argyrolobium amplexicaule Diimmer, comb. nov. — Lotus 

 amplexicaulis E. Meyer, Comment. PI. Afr. Aust. 92. — Harvey 

 in Harv. & Sonder, Fl. Cap. ii. 158. 



E. Meyer, having only seen fruiting material of this plant, 

 was led to regard it as a Lotus, Harvey following him in this, 

 owing also to paucity of material. Kew, being in possession of 

 flowering specimens of Drege's, as also of subsequent collections, 

 presented an opportunity of investigating this point, which 

 suggests that the species has been wrongly interpreted, and should 

 be referred to Argyrolobium, approaching A. barbatum Walp. 

 most closely, but differing in the larger leaflets and stipules, and 

 many-flowered subsessile heads. 



The following specimens have been examined : — 



South Africa. — Coast Eegion, Komgha ; between Zandplaat 

 and Komgha, 600-900 m. Drege ! Eastern Region, Tembuland ; 

 Bazeia, Baur, 497 ! Griqualand East ! grassy slopes above Clydes- 

 dale, 750 m.; Tyson, 1914! 1256! Natal, Inanda, Wood, 1181! 

 on a grassy hill, Mooi Eiver, Wood, 4074 ! Gerrard, 1729 ! 



LORD AVEBURY. 

 (1834—1913.) 



The writer has pleasant recollections of certain warm summer 

 afternoons spent during a Cambridge Long Vacation term nearly 

 thirty years ago in company with two little books — Flowers, 

 Fruits, and Leaves, and British Wild Floicers Considered in Bela- 

 tion to Insects. To a student training in the somewhat restricted 

 morphological and physiological school of the period, these intro- 

 ductions into the field of plant biology came both as a relief and 

 a revelation. They showed the plant as a living organism in 

 close association with its environment, and suggested underlying 

 meanings for the wonderful diversity in position, form, and 

 arrangement of the vegetative and floral organs. The author, Sir 

 John Lubbock, a close friend and ardent disciple of Charles 

 Darwin, and withal an easy writer in a simple popular style, did 

 much to popularise the principle of adaptation to environment in 

 the plant kingdom. These excursions into botanical fields were 

 rather the recreations of a mind busied with many and more 

 serious matters than elaborated scientific treatises ; but if his 



