174 
ala inclusa, 3-5 em. longa.—Radermachera sp.n., Craib, Contrib 
Fl. Siam, p. 151. 
Bangkok, Legation Garden, Paget. Bangkok, cult., Mare 
617. Petchabouri, thicket, 50 m., Marcan 621 (almost enn 
wild). 
Siamese name, Kaa kow (ex Marcan). 
Cinnamomum (Camphora) siamense, Craib [Lauraceae-Perseae} 
a speciebus indicis hujus gregis alae gracilibus, foliis minoribus 
subtus glabris haud glaucis distinctu 
Arbor ramulis gracilibus glabris ‘palit pallide brunneis mox 
fusco-brunneis pauci-lenticellatis. Folia oblongo-elliptica, rarius 
lanceolata ovatave, apice angustata vel subacuminata, mucro- 
ulata, basi cuneata, saepe inaequilateralia, ad 11 cm. longa et 
4-5 cm. lata, coriacea vel chartaceo-coriacea, glabra, subtus 
parum pallidiora, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4—6 supra conspicuis 
subtus prominentibus intra marginem anastomosantibus, duobus 
infimis intramarginalibus, nervulis rete gracile subtus prominulum 
efficientibus, margine integra, petiolo circa 1 cm. longo supra 
canaliculato suffulta. Flores ignoti. Fructus immaturus; recep- 
taculum incrassatum, elongato-turbinatum, 1-6 cm. longum, 
apice 7 mm. diametro, perianthii segmentis delapsis. 
. Siam, Kerr 2511. 
XXVIII. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
RETIREMENT oF Mr. W. Watson.—On June 24th Mr. W. 
Watson, A.LS., who has been Curator of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, since August 1st, 1901, retired under the age limit. 
Mr. Watson entered Kew as Foreman i in 1879 and was appointed 
Assistant Curator in 1886. He is succeeded by Mr. W. J. BEAN, 
who has been Assistant Curator since Feburary 7th, 1900, having 
entered Kew in 1883 as a young gardener. The post vacated by 
‘Mr, Bean is not being filled, but the five Foremen, Messrs. W. 
TRvrNe, C..P. Rarrinn, A. OsBor RN, W. Taytor and J. CovTrts, 
have been given the rank of Assistant Curators. 
R. ARCHIBALD T. Brooks, Agricultural Superintendent, 
St. Lucia (K.B., 1903, 30), has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 
Director of Agriculture in the Gambia. 
Presentation of the Forrest Collection—The important and 
valuable collections made by Mr. George Forrest during the 
period 1916-1919, when he was engaged on his botanical ex- 
plorations in N. W. Yunnan and §.E. Tibet—chiefly on the 
ranges which divide the three irae rivers, the Yangtze-kiang, 
the Mekong and the Salween, draining those regions— have been 
very generously presented to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
by the Syndicate under whose auspices Mr. Forrest carried out 
his explorations. Out of the 6000 numbers collected during 
