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South Afric a. ~F r es ented : Transvaal (A. 0. D. Mosre) bv 

 I. B. Pole Evans. . ^^^' ^ 



Purcliased : H. Eudatis, Natal. 



Forth A.umiicx.-~Pre!ientcd : Arkansas (E. J. Palmer), 

 Prof. 0. S. Sargent; California, by Miss Alice Eastwood; grasses^, 

 by tbe U.S. Department of Agriculture. 



Purcliased: A. H. Brinkmau, Biitisli Columbia; IS". C. Kiud- 

 berg (per Major Axel Kindberg), mosses; A. A. Feller, N'evada 

 and California; P. B, Kennedy, Nevada. 



Central Km^hica.— Presented : Mexican Coniferae (G. R. 

 Shaw), by Prof. C, S. Sargent. 



West Indies. — Presented: Cuba, etc., by tlie New York 

 Botanical Garden ; Dutch West Indies, by the Herbarium van de 

 Rijks-Universiteit te Utrecht; marine Algae, by Dr. Marshall A. 



Howe. 



South America. — Uruguay, bv Mr. Mariano B. Beiro. 

 Purchased: E. Ule, Bra;iil; Dr. Th. Ilerzog, Bolivia and Chili. 



General. — Presented: miscellaneous plants, by the Directeur 

 de la Galerie de Botanique du Museum Natiouale d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris; Polyporaceae, by Mr, C. G. Llojxl. 



Purcliased: II. Sudre, Herbarium Hieracioriim, fasc. 2-4; 

 H. Sydow, Fungi Exotici Exsiccati, Ease. 5-6. 



A valuable collection of over 2200 specimens lias been received 

 from the Paris Herbarium, and contains many species from 

 iS^ew Caledonia, Indo-Cliina and x\frica- Mr. C, G. Lloyd bas 

 presented Polyporaceae^ chiefly cotypes of recently described 

 species. The collection of fungi bas also been incrensed by the 

 presentation by the lientham Trustees of Mr. C. Crossland's 



British herbarium, containing^ over 2000 specimens and accom- 

 panied by about 600 drawings (see Kew Bulletin, 1914, 173), and 

 by the presentation of specimens collected in the Southern Pro- 

 vinces of Nigeria by Mi. C. 0. Farquharson. The Herbarium of 

 the Imperial Botanic Garden, Petrograd, has contributed a set 

 of Russian and Manchurian plants. Mr, "W. B. Turrill has pre- 

 sented a set of 380 specimens collected during his tour in Ireland 

 last summer. 



The Chinese collections have been enriched by the presentation 

 by Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Sons of the specimens collected for 

 them by Messrs. E, H* Wilson and W. Purdom, and by those col- 

 lected on the Burma-Chinese frontier by Mr. G. Forrest and pre- 

 sented by the Royal Bcjtanic Garden, Edinburgh. Mr. H. C. 

 Robinson's collection from the Malay Peninsula lin^ been worked 

 out at Kew by Mr. H. N. Ridley, who also determiued a large 

 number of the Dutch New Guinea plants collected during the 

 Wollaston expedition by Mr. C. Boden Kloss and presented by the 

 Trustees of the British Museum. 



Mr. C. E. F. Allen, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Port 

 Barwin, Northern Territory of Australia, has sent a set of plants 

 collected by him in that district and containing a large proportion 

 of grasses, one of which proved to be undc5!cribed. 



