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anthemums, Agaves from Mexico, Puyas, tree Echiums an 
Pelargoniums all growing there with astonishing vigour. The 
remarkable collection of New Zealand and Australian plants 
under cultivation (largely made by his son, Major A. A. Dorrien- 
Smith), afford, perhaps, ‘a greater proof of Mr. Dorrien-Smith’s 
South African Fever Bark.—In a letter to Kew, dated 23rd 
January, 1918, Mr. I. B. Pole-Evans, Chief of the Division of 
Botany, Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, has called attention 
$1 ress to the Cape Town Medical 
Society on 25th August, 1899, by Dr. J. Maberly, concerning a 
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to s 7 : ad: 2 
identity of the tree. Unfortunsiity: 1 plants perished ae 
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germinated. 
In 1917 Dr. Maberly b 
subject, but the material—a p 
obtained by him—sent to Mr. 
proved quite inadequate for the purpose. 
ecame once more interested in the 
ortion of the bark originally 
Pole-Evans for identification, 
Dr. Maberly paid a 
