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D. prostratus, Jacq. (D. pectinatus, E. Mey.), but differs from that 
species in the terminal inflorescence, broader leaves and shorter, 
acute, not acuminate, involucral bracts; it appears to be a shade. 
grown form of D. Zeyheri, Sond. : 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
The figures are reproduced from photographs by Miss E. 
Brown, of three of the five sheets in the Thunberg Herbarium. 
Pl. J., Fig. 1. D. scaber, Thunb.: type. Between the two 
specimens of D. scaber, there has been mounted (evidently at a 
later date) a specimen of another species, numbered 2, from 
“* Helvetia ’’ as indicated on the back of the sheet. To prevent 
confusion this has been cut out from the print. 
Fig. 2. D. caespitosus, Thunb. ; type. 
Pl. II.—D. crenatus, Thunb., B; type. 
XXXIV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. R. E. Houttum, B.A., Junior Demonstrator in Botany in 
the University of Cambridge, has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 
Assistant Director of Gardens, Straits Settlements. 
Mr. H. K. Hewson has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant 
Superintendent, Agricultural Department, Gold Coast, and 
Caprain J. W. D. Fisuer, Assistant in the Agricultural 
Department, Sierra Leone. 
to supply the Trinidad Garden with its first plants ; but Trinidad 
comes first in the West Indies for an unbroken period of existence. 
