ON THE BOTANICAL SUBDIVISION OF IRELAND. ^7 



which I have examined being oblong or kidney-shaped, with gene- 

 rally a longitudinal farrow. I am indebted to Mr. Clarke for 

 pointing out the identity of Dr. Smith's plant with Aneilewa 

 sepalosum., which forms the only African among a group of Indian, 

 Malayan, and Chinese species. The genus is dedicated to Mr. F, 

 Gillett, a member of Dr. Donaldson Smith's expedition. 



Mr. Baker also finds among the Polypetalae Kelleronia splendens 

 Schinz {Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1895, p. 500, t. ix.), from low-lying 

 country to the east of the Shebeli river; Crotalaria Jamesii Oliv., 

 from a little to the west of the same river; C. natalitia Meisn., a 

 South African species, from Sheikh Mohammed ; and Cassia aden- 

 ensis Beuth. Mr. Eendle has identified XeropJu/ta Schnitzleinia 

 Baker and Crimim Thruppii Baker, from between Jub Eiver and 

 Lake Stefanie, and Euphorbia oblomjicaulis Baker, an Arabian plant, 

 from east of the Shebeli river. 



Plate 35a. — A. Donaldsonia stenopetala Bak. fil. 1. Leaf. 2. Portion of 

 inflorescence. 3. Flower. 4. Sepal. 5. Petal. 6. Flower, petals removed ; 

 s, stamen ; st, staminocle. 7. Stamen and staminode. 8. Longitudinal section 

 of ovary. Figs. 1, 2, nat. size; 3-7, X 2; 8, x 5. 



B. Gillett ia aepalosa B,end\e. 1. Whole plant. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen (front 

 and side view). 4. Staminode. 5. Pollen grain. 6. Pistil. 7. Transverse section 

 of ovary. 8. Floral diagram. Figs. 1, 2, nat. size ; 3, 4, & 6, x ^ ; 5 <& 7, more 

 highly magnified. 



Plate 356. — Hydnora Hanningtoni Eendle. 1. Plant bearing a iiower. 



2. Flower in longitudinal section. 3. Longitudinal section passing through 

 two pairs of pollen-sacs. 4. Portion of jjlacenta, in longitudinal section, bearing 

 ovules. 5. A single ovule. Fig. 1, half nat. size ; 2, two-thirds nat. size ; 



3, X 16. 



ON THE BOTANICAL SUBDIVISION OF IRELAND. 



By R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E. 



Thirty- SKVEN years have now elapsed since, at a meeting of the 

 Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, a paper by 

 Charles C. Babington was read, entitled "Hints towards a Cybele 

 Hibernica." In this communication, the author put forward a 

 scheme for the subdivision of Ireland into twelve provinces and 

 thirty-seven counties and vice-counties, on the plan of Watson's 

 Cybele Britannica ; and as the paper is not readily accessible to 

 most botanists,* the suggested division may be reprinted here : — 



XIX. South Atlantic. — 113. South Kerry; 114. North Kerry ; 

 115. South Cork. 



XX. Blackwater.— IIG. North Cork; 117. Wexford; 118. 

 South Tipperary. 



XXI. Bakrow. — 119. Kilkenny; 120. Carlow; 121. Queen's Co. 



XXII. Leinster Coast. — 122. Wexford; 123. Wicklow. 



* It was published in the Natural History Review, vi. pt. 2, Dublin, 1859; 



and in Froc. Dub. Univ. Zool. and But. Asuuc. i. 



