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A specimen collected by Claussen in the neighbourhood of 
Bombaie near Lusambo (#) also belongs here, but the capsule 
attached contains fruits with a thick shell like those of D. elliptica 
and several leaves of D. firmula as well as a fragment of a leaf 
of D. elliptica. 
further species, characterised by small mericarps (not quite 
2 cm. in diameter) with a thin, in the dry state, transparent 
cortex, seems to be represented by a specimen collected by 
EK. Laurent by the Sankuru river in December 1895. 
He describes it as a small tree. There are no flowers with it, 
but a fragment of an infructescence is attached to the stem. 
This seems to have borne two fruits and its axes are much less 
lignified than those of the other species. The leaves are very 
thin, oblong to lanceolate-oblong and caudate-acuminate, 
gradually attenuated at the base and 8-12 cm. by 3-4-5 ecm., 
with a petiole about 1 cm. long. 
XVIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. O. T. Fautxner, B.A., Dip. Agric. (Camb.), late 
Deputy Director of Agriculture, Lyallpur, Punjab, India, has 
been appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on 
the recommendation of Kew, Director of Agriculture, Nigeria, 
and Mr. R. Swarnson-Hatu, F.L.S., who has spent some years 
on plantations in the Portuguese Congo, Mr. H. B. Waters, B.A. 
(Oxon.), Mr. H. Rorsuck, N.D.A. (Leeds) and Mr. J. M. Lons- 
DALE, who has had previous agricultural experience in India, as 
Agricultural Superintendents in the Department of Agriculture, 
igeria. 
The following appointments in the Agricultural Department 
of the Gotp Coast have been made by the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew :— 
Lr.-Cou: A. Oeitviz, N.D.A. (Edin.) and Mr. C. H. Know zs, 
Superintendent of Agriculture, Fiji, Senior Superintendents of 
Agriculture. 
Mr. H. J. Horwoon, B.A. (Oxon.), Mr. A. W. PaTERson, 
N.D.A. (Edin.) and Mr. J. Sreetz, N.D.A., Assistant Super- 
intendents of Agriculture. 
Mr. M. Varpy, Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture, 
Grenada (see K.B. 1920, p. 71) and Mr. A. A. L. Smita of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Supervisors of Fruit and 
Vegetable Farms. 
Mr. T. D. Marrianp, Chief of the Economic Plants Division, 
Kenya, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Botanist in the 
Agricultural Department, UGANDA. 
