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hirta, subtus hirtiora, praesertim in nervis 4-vel 5-paribus, 5 ad 
7 cm. longa, 2-5 ad 5 cm. lata; petioli 4 cm. longi, hirti. Stipulae 
late ovatae, ferme glabrae. Racemi gracillimi, hirti, 6 cm. longi. 
Bracteae ovatae, acuminatae, dissitae, 2 mm. longae. Flores 
masculi 4 mm. lati in pedicellis brevibus. Sepala 3, ovata, hirta. 
Discus nullus. Stamina 3, filamentis brevissimis, loculis antherae 
connectivo lato utrinque carinato et ad apicem prolongato divulsis. 
Flores feminei non visi. Capsula parva, sepalis lanceolatis 
acutis 6 mm. longis. 
Selangor, Batu Caves in thickets, Ridley. 
This is quite unlike the common species Cnesmone javanica 
Bl. in its much thinner, more glabrous, peltate leaves and more 
slender racemes. 
ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF THE 
FALKLAND ISLANDS. 
C. V. B. Marquanp. 
In 1912 Mrs. Elinor F. Vallentin presented to Kew a collection 
of some 930 specimens of plants, including Cryptogams, collected 
in the West Falkland Islands. Mrs. Vallentin had been a resident 
in the Falkland Islands for a number of years and her former 
collections formed the basis of Mr. C. H. Wright’s paper published 
in the Journal of the Linnean Society for 1911 (Vol. xxxrx). 
The later collection was made in 1910 and 1911 and it was during 
this period that Mrs. Vallentin prepared the beautiful drawings 
which figure in her work, “ Illustrations of the Flowering Plants 
and Ferns of the Falkland Islands’. . 
In working out the Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptogams and 
Charophyta a number of interesting species have been met with 
which were unrecorded hitherto from the Falklands, and several 
others which confirm earlier records upon which some doubt 
has been cast by Skottsberg, in his “ Botanical Survey of the 
Falkland Islands ”’, owing to their not having been found during 
recent years. The present paper gives an enumeration of these 
additions. 
Another interesting collection which was made by Dr. A. W. 
ill in November 1902 and includes species from near Port 
Stanley, East Falklands, has also recently been determined. 
This collection contains a specimen of Senecio vulgaris L., which 
has hitherto been unrecorded, but it seems probable that it is a 
recent introduction, possibly existing only as a “ casual ”’. 
With the exception of Skottsberg, who traversed the Islands 
in one or two directions, most of the collections so far made in 
the Falklands have been from the neighbourhood of the coast. 
The majority of the specimens in Mrs. Vallentin’s collection came 
from the districts around Shallow Bay and Byron Sound. 
Hooker recorded 125 species in 1847, Wright listed 156 species 
in 1911, while 163 was the total included by Skottsberg in his 
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