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and the Spanish mountains, bringing into existence the several 

 species fitted for the areas in which they are now found. E. Salis- 

 burgensis, fitted for a colder chmate, spread in all directions, and 

 has maintained an existence in isolated areas up to the present day 

 in the mountains of South Europe, Mid-Europe, in Ireland, Norway 

 and Sweden, in the Pyrenees, and the Carpathians. The only 

 species immediately related to E. Salishuryensis is E. Illyrica, 

 which occurs in the north-west of the Balkan Peninsula ; its 

 relation to E. Salishurgensis is very close. 



Scheme V. (p. 335) exhibits the phytogeny of the Angustifolia. 

 (To be continued.) 



NOTES ON NAUCLEEiE. 



By James Beitten, F.L.S. 



In a recent number of this Journal I felt it necessary to criticise 

 somewhat severely a monograph of a genus of Bnbiacea; lately issued 

 by the Linuean Society. No greater contrast to the slipshod and 

 slovenly "revision" of Pentas could be found than is presented by 

 Mr. Haviland's careful and scholarly monograph of Nmicleea;;'''- and 

 it is almost incredible that both sliould have been issued by the 

 same Society within a few months of each other. Every omission 

 which characterized Mr. Scott Elliot's monograph of Pentas is 

 supplied by Mr. Haviland in his revision of Naucleea, with the 

 result that an important contribution has been made towards a 

 monograph of a large and difficult order of plants. 



While arranging the NaucleecE in the National Herbarium in 

 accordance with the monograph, I have made a few notes which 

 I propose to put on record. This is the more desirable because 

 Mr. Haviland, as it seems to me, has hardly done justice to the 

 material placed at his disposal, although he duly examined the 

 specimens therein contained. I must, however, preface my remarks 

 by saying that, as a whole, the work has been excellently well done, 

 and that my criticisms deal merely with points of detail. The 

 Linnean Society may be congratulated on the prompt publication 

 of this and the other papers issued in the same number of the 

 Journal — a pleasing contrast with the delay which has lately 

 characterized its proceedings. There is an absence of the extrava- 

 gance in style of printing which has sometimes been manifest, and 

 although there is still room for improvement in the editing, the 

 papers in the present number seem to have been read with reason- 

 able care. 



In an introduction of twenty pages, Mr. Haviland deals with 

 the nomenclature, characters, classification, and distribution of the 

 group in a way which shows he has a complete grasp of his subject. 



* "A Eevision of the Tribe Naucleea," by G. D. Haviland, M.A., M.B., 

 F.L.S. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. pp. 1-94, tt. iv. July 1, 1897. 



