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Chlorophytum. In the "Naclitrag" to the Pfianzenfamilien, p. 69, 

 Anthericopsis is assumed (I think rightly) to be identical with 

 Gillettia, a genus of Commelinacca; subsequently described by me 

 in this Journal for 1896, p. 55, t. 355, on a species of Ancilema 

 which seemed to show differences sufficiently striking to allow of 

 generic separation. Prof. Engler, admitting my view of its position, 

 now places Anthericopsis next to Aneilema, distinguishing it by its 

 regular calyx and corolla, and equal ovary chambers. He makes no 

 mention of the difference in the pollen to which I called attention, 

 that of the new genus being round and echinulate, while in AncUcma 

 it is oblong or kidney-shaped. On the other hand, a character is 

 inti'oduced into the diagnosis both in the Pflamenwelt and the 

 PflanzenfamUien which does not exist in the material examined by 

 me ; the petals are described as shorter than the sepals, whereas in 

 my specimens (see fig. and description in Journ. Bot.) they are 

 appreciably larger, nearly f in. as compared with 7 lines. This 

 discrepancy may be due to the withered condition of the petals in 

 the specimens examined by Engler, as it is difficult to restore these 

 very delicate structures in Commelinacecc to their original size and 

 shape. Or it may be that Engler's Anthericopsis Fischeri (in 

 Pjianzenwelt, p. 139) is not identical with my Gillettia sepalosa 

 {Journ. Bot. I.e.), and that there are two, and not a single species 

 only, viz. Anthericopsis Fischeri Engl. [Pjlanzenwelt, I.e.) and A. 

 sepalosa, non A. sepalosa Engl. (syu. Aneilema sepaloswn C. B. Clarke 

 in DC. Monorjr. Phan. iii. 202 ; Gillettia sepalosa Kendle in Journ. 

 Bot. 1. c). The leaves of A. Fischeri are described as circ. 1-1-5 cm. 

 lonyis, 2 cm. laiis, but this measurement for the length is obviously 

 wrong. — A. B. Kendle. 



NOTICE OF BOOK. 



Flora Capensis: being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the 

 Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal {and neiyhbouriny 

 Territories) by various Botanists. Edited by W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, C.M.G., C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., Director, Royal Gardens, 

 Kew. Published under the authority of the Governments of 

 the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Vol. VI. Hfemodoracese 

 — Liliaceffi. London : Reeve. 8vo, pp. x, 563 : 24s. net. 



Botanists are to be congratulated on having at last in their 

 possession a volume of the work which was intrusted to Dr. Dyer 

 exactly a quarter of a century ago, and which has ever since remained 

 in abeyance. It is issued as vol. vi. of Harvey and Sender's Flora, 

 but considering the extension of place, which now includes the area 

 between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Ocean, and the consequent 

 accession of material, it may more accurately be regarded as the first 

 volume of a new work. It is certain that when the enumeration has 

 proceeded backwards as far as the Fricacea, the earUer volumes which 

 come down to that order will have to be rewritten. But at the 



