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that possesses the greatest general biological 

 Botany. interest is a striking paper by the late Dr. 



A. Barclay On the Life-history of a remarkable Uredine (JJromyces 

 Cunninghamianus) published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, 

 Vol. 3. Hardly less interesting is a noteworthy paper by Dr. D. D. Cun- 

 ningham, F. k. S., On some species of Choleraic Comma-Bacilli occurring in 

 Calcutta, published in Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army 

 of India, Part vi. This latter periodical contains two papers on crypto- 

 gam ic botany by Dr. Barclay — on Two Autcecious Cceomata in Simla, and 

 on Rhododendron Uredinece. 



The most important contributions to Indian S} r stematic Botany 

 have been the completion of Sir Joseph Hooker's masterly account of 

 the Indian Orchidacece, in Part xvii (the opening portion of Vol. vi) of 

 the Flora of British India ; and revisions by Dr. Gr. King, c. I. E., P. E. s., of 

 great economic as well as systematic value, of the Indian Magnoliac&B and 

 of the Indian and Malayan species of Myristica, both contained in Annals 

 of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Vol. 3, which has been issued dur- 

 ing the year. In the Society's Journal Dr. King has also continued his 

 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida, a systematic work of the 

 highest value. The part last published (No. 3) contains description of 

 the species of Malvacece, Stercidiacete and Tiliacere. A valuable contribu- 

 tion to systematic botany during the year has been an account, by Dr. D. 

 Prain, of the genus Gomphostemnia in Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta, Vol. 3. Dr. Prain has also contributed to the Society's Journal, 

 Part II, descriptions of a species of Nepeta and of two species of Glypto- 

 petalum. Sir D. Brandis has noted in the Indian Forester (Oct. 1891) 

 the existence in Burma of a new species of Terminalia ; and Mr. H. N. 

 Ridley has described four new orchids in the Journal of the Linnean 

 Society. 



The most important contribution to Indian Phyto-geography during 

 the year has been A Sketch of the Vegetation of British Baluchistan, with 

 Descriptions of New Species, by Mr. J. H. Lace, of the Indian Forest De- 

 partment, assisted by Mr. W. B. Hemslcy, of the Kew Herbarium. 

 Dr. Prain has contributed a paper to the Society's Journal, Part II, on 

 The Vegetation of the Coco Group, and has also published in the Society's 

 Proceedings (Dec. 1891) an account of a botanical visit to Little Anda- 

 man and the Nicobars, with lists of plants from two islands never before 

 botanieally investigated. 



The most important contrihution to Indian Economic Botany for 

 the year has been the issue of Vol. 5 of the Dictionary <>f the Economic 

 Products if India, by Dr. G. Watt, c. i. e. The volume 1ms been prepared 

 by Dr. Watt, with the collaboration of Mr. J. F. Dutbie and of Drs. J. 



