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AvsTRALIA.—Presented: New South Wales, by Mr. W. Green- 
wood; Western Australia, by Dr. F. Stoward and (Dr. Alexander 
Morrison) by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
Tropicat Arrica.—Presented :. Sierra Leone, by Messrs. C. E. 
Lane-Poole and K. Burbidge; British a Africa, by Mr. W. J. 
Dowson; Uganda, by Messrs. R. F and R. A. Dummer; 
Nyasaland, by Mr. J. M. Purves; Rhodesia (Mr. A. J. Teague 
and the Rev. F. A. Rogers), ay the Bolus Herbarium ; South- 
West Africa, by Dr. Hans Schin 
Sours Arrica.—Presented : Peiey ‘Sladen Memorial Expedi- 
tion, Keepmanskop to Windhoek, 1915-16 (Prof. H. H. 
Pearson) and from various localities, by the Bolus Herbarium ; 
Basutoland (Mrs. A. Dieterlen) and other rn by the South 
African Museum; Matabeleland (Rev. F. A. Rogers), by the 
Bolus Herbarium 
Purchased : anise Fungi, Miss A. Pegler. 
Norta America.—Presented: British Columbia, Dry rigs by 
Miss BE. M. Warren; United States and Canada, by Prof. C. S. 
Sargent; ‘‘ American Grasses” cent. 3-4 (i (a neluding some retract 
specimens), by the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Purchased: Collins, Holden and Setchell, Se batten Boreali- 
Americana, fase. 42-43: a. 0. soaps ti Oklaho 
CenTraL America.—Presented: “Mex ae G. Arsene 
and Nicolas), by Prince R. Bonaparte; “Basetio Island, by Mr. 
Scoresby Routledge. 
West Inpres.—Presented: Various islands, by the New York 
Botanical Garden ; = amaica, by Mr. H. N. Ridley; Porto Rican 
Fungi, by Mr. F. L. Stevens. 
Sourn AmeErica.—Presented: Colombia, by Mr. M. T. Da 
and Mrs. F. Tracey; Patagonia, by Mr. Scoresby Doudiades: 
Dr. E. G. Gilbert’s collection of British Rubi consists of more 
than 1000 sheets, representing many critical forms of which he 
critical species from Tenerife. Three important collections of 
Chinese plants have been acquired, one made in Chekiang by 
I. Meyer and received through the U.S. Department of 
he alae the others made by E. Wilson and Mr. 
C. K. Schneider respectively were Leta by Prof. C. S. 
Sargent, from whom also Wilson’s Japanese collection has been 
obtained. Plants from the Madras Government Herbarium have 
been presented through Mr. J. S. Gamble, who is re out 
the ‘Flora of Madras.’’ The plants collected by Messrs. H. C. 
oe and ©. B. Kloss on Redah Peak seid been said out 
at Kew by Mr. H. N. Ridley, whose report on them, with 
descriptions of new species, has been published in the Journal of 
the Federated Malay States sobehi ite ite vii. pp. 37-58. Mr. 
I. H. Burkill has sent, amongst other things, specimens of 
Dioscoreas eelitvated at Sin apore. Dn ke F. G. Kerr continued 
to send Siamese plants until he left Siam for service as an officer 
