for the Colonic, and arrived in Svdnev -January II, 1848. Mr. 
r; "i" H "..I ro vacate his appointment on Mr. Moure's arrival, 
which he did very unwillingly, and with the good wishes of the 
Governor, win is appointed him Commissioner of 
Crown Lands for the Wide Bav district of what is now called 
Queensland. He died March 1, 18.-):}, in his ;,Sth Year, after great 
suffering, caused by exposure in travelling in his district. His 
Queensland post afforded him many opportunities of making 
:<l of introducing ii.-\\ plants, of which he 
very fully availed himself. He was therefore another of the 
martyrs to science, whom the hardships of early colonial explora- 
tion brought to an untimely end, and was at least the fourth 
officer in charge of the Botanic Gardens who succumbed to zeal 
for the public service. 
"His directorship of the Gardens of little more than three 
months did not permit him to make his mark on the institution 
to the extent that he would undoubtedly have done had he 
continued in office. 
"He was, as I have stated, succeeded by the late Mr. Charles 
Moore, who has but recently passed to his rest. With his director- 
ship commenced the modern era of the Gardens. My predecessor 
wrote but lntle. hut I have been able to gather together certain 
data which will enable me, if permitted, at some future time, to 
lay before my readers some account of the development under his 
administration of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, an institution of 
vhjcu - 
» be proud.' 
J. H. Maiden. 
XXXVI.-COLORADO RUBBER. 
{Hymenoxys, Sp.) 
Early in 1904 a correspondent forwarded to Kew an extract 
from the Denver Post of 26th November, 1903, which gave a 
somewhat enthusiastic account of the discovery by a prospector in 
^iT^ {) \ " ir - This waa spoken of as 
Co S; i 6 U ex / endin g int " ■ . Gunniston 
Wrf a8 f f * r «"** ^ New Mexico. In June, 1905, 
Mr. E. Naylor, of Bradford, presented to the Museum at Kew a 
KuSSolwi^i?^ t0g6ther -ith sampTes Z cnide and 
subseanently 
also communicated seeds of the plant 5 subsequently 
Tvrrey Botanical CM for 1904, p. 461,^ 8 ame auLf has 
