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visit in person to the low-veld with the object of discovering the 
tree, but failed to do so. 
Mr. Pole-Evans himself instituted a search for the source of 
this remedy, and very soon succeeded in finding the tree, and in 
ascertaining that the curative properties of its bark in fever 
cases are well known to the inhabitants of the low-veld. 
found by Mr. Pole-Evans is on the Olifants River in the Lyden- 
burg district. From a subsequent letter, dated 13th March, 
1918, we learn that Mr. Pole-Evans has taken energetic steps 
for the proper therapeutic investigation of this remedy and the 
results of his action will be looked forward to with interest. 
Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense.*—The plan of exploring 
et 1 ge BAe LR 
took up the same task on July 15th, 1918, and less than five 
months later he was killed by the natives about 15 kilometres 
from the town of Amboina (cf. Kew Bull. 1914. 192). Dr. 
neighbouring islands, and would no doubt have accomplished 
a great deal in the identification of the Rumphian species. This 
is evident from the publication before us, a volume of 595 pages, 
1 - D. Merrill, at whose suggestion Dr. Robinson 
undertook the task. Professor Merrill hae endeavoured to com- 
plete the work from the material available in order that the lab- 
ours of his late colleague should not have been in vain. 
Apart from its great historic interest, the special importance 
hong “ these there are no less than 350. As Professor Merrill 
eb (p. 13) : “In botanical literature there are scores of species 
Ww! ve only es descriptions are the brief general state- 
pa eee on Herbarium Amboinense, from which 
: 1s usually impossible for the working systematist 
to gain any definite idea of the t el : 
_ *E. D. Merrill, An Interpretati, 7 RENEW Ee 
Pp. 595 and 2 maps: ia dl leg Amboinense ; 
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