3.31 THE .lOUli^AL OF BOTANi' 



Nine letters are printed from Frilierre Carl Harlenian (1700-58) 

 with three from Linnieus ; the correspondenee shows the elose fi-iend- 

 ship between them. Unfortunately only three of Linnteus's letters to 

 H.irleman have come down to us, though nine are here printed from 

 HArleman. 



The next name whieh may be mentioned is that of Count A. J. 

 von Hopken (1712-80) who was Chancellor of Upsala University from 

 17G0 to 17(54 ; the letters — two from Linnieus and thirty-two from 

 llopken — are for the most part short. 



The last who calls for special remark is Andreas Kallstrom 

 (1783":'-1S12), both of whose letters are dated from Kensington in 

 1704 and 17(35. In order to gain gardening experience, he came 

 to London and obtained employment as a journeyman gardener at 

 Kensington Palace. His lettei's speak of Philip Miller at Chelsea, 

 packets of seeds for Upsala, and the forthcoming edition — the eighth — 

 of Miller's Garde ners Dictioiiarij. Kallstrom went to Paris from 

 London, and ultimately returned to Sweden, but we have here only 

 this brief liftino: of the veil during his stay in London. 



B. D. J. 



Butch y.W. New Guinea: a Goiitrihufion to the Phytogeograpliy 

 and Flora of the Arfah Muuiitaiiis, Sfc. By L. S, Gibks, 

 P.L.S., P.R.M.S. London: Taylor & Francis, July 1917. 

 Demy Svo, paper boards, pp. iv, 226, 4 plates, 16 text-hgures. 

 Price Vis. 6t/. 



This important contribution to our knowledge of the flora of 

 New Guinea is the result of investigations by Miss Gibbs — who had 

 already published in the Journal oj the Linneaii Societi/ the results 

 of her travels in Fiji and North Borneo — in December 1913 into the 

 flora of the Arfak Mountains, to which is appended a list of plants 

 collected by her in the vicinity of Manokoeari, Humboldt Bay, and in 

 three of the islands, in January and February of the following year. 



Tlie fli'st hfty pages are occupied with introductory matter, in 

 which is given a summary of previous work — the tirst collection of 

 plants from the region was made by Lesson in 1824. A section on 

 the "-eneral characters of the country is followed by the itinerary and 

 general account of the vegetation ; then come plant associations and 

 l)hytogeographical conclusions. A brief summary of the botanical 

 results is followed by a systematic enumeration of the plants collected, 

 over 330 in number, of which a hundred are new, " with one new 

 natural order and Ave [four] very distinct new genera." The order is 

 Trinieniacece, regarded by Perkins and Gilg as a tribe of Monimiacecd 

 but here raised to ordinal rank; it comprises the two anomalous 

 genera Trimenia (of which a new species is described) -dndJ^iptocalga;, 

 to which Miss Gibbs adds a third — Idcnhurgia — with two species. 

 The other new genera are GU)bsia (Urticacete) with two species, 

 described by Dr. Jlendle ; Foiliilogyne Baker f. (Melastomaceai), 

 also with two ; and F aimer vandenhroekia — a terrible name which 

 might surely have been shortened? — (Araliaceai), monotypic. Among 

 the more interesting of the new species, many of which are figured 

 are Dacrijdiuni novo-rjuinecnae Gibbs, Liboccdrus arfakenais Gibbs 



