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and smiling when anything was done for him. He was evidently 

 sinking all the afternoon and evening, hut was as evidently free 

 from any pain. Between nine and ten in the evening Mr. Freeman 

 was called away for a little, and the hospital attendant on his return 

 reported a change. As Mr. Freeman entered the room Henry turned 

 his head towards him, and then lay quietly back, and passed away 

 without a tremor or movement of any kind. 



" The funeral took place at Kandy on the morning of Sunday, 

 October 18th, and was attended by two hundred of the European 

 community and by a great number of natives, both head-men and 

 Garden employes. Henry's old servant, Bob Appu, never left the 

 back of the hearse throughout the route from Peradeniya ; and on 

 the previous day my nephew writes that he had about 400 appli- 

 cations from natives (old servants, village head-men, &c.) to see 

 ' the old master.' The burial took place in the Mahaiyawa Cemetery, 

 Henry's body being laid not far from the resting-place of his pre- 

 decessor. Dr. Thwaites." 



[The portrait here reproduced was taken by Messrs. Cameron 

 during Dr. Trimen's visit to England in 1887.] 



James Britten. 



SISYRINCHIUM CALIFORNICUM Dryand. 



By a. B. Rendle, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Plate 364.) 



The plants from which the following description was made were 

 found last June, by the Rev. E. S. Marshall, in marshy, rushy 

 meadow-land, a mile or more north of Rosslare station, near 

 Wexford, Ireland, as already indicated in this Journal {antea, 

 p. 366) :— 



Plants 6-12 in. high, glabrous, acaulescent, and cfespitose in 

 habit. Rhizome ascending, tapering, reaching If in. in length, 

 with a diameter of 2 lines beneath the shoot, bearing numerous 

 brown fibrous roots about J line in diameter, and ending in the 

 erect flowering shoot. Leaves generally six in number, distichous, 

 consisting of a flattened sheathing base with a narrow scarious 

 transparent margin enclosing the younger leaves and the peduncle, 

 and passing gradually into a linear flattened blade tapering towards 

 a rather blunt apex. Length from 3^-8^ in., according to the 

 size of the plant, and from 1^-2 lines in greatest width. Blade 

 traversed by 5-6 parallel veins. Peduncles, two of which are 

 generally present, overtopping the leaves (the largest measured 

 9 in. below the spathe), leafless, compressed, and broadly winged, 

 width 1 to 2 lines. Bracts distichous and sheathing ; the two 

 outermost, or spathes, completely enclosing the rest, and foliaceous 

 in texture. Outer spathe erect, tapering gradually upwards to a 

 subacute apex from a broad flattened sheathing base, the margins 

 of which are connate for about one-fourth of the length of the 



