There are specimens of this at Kew, from the Chinese Pro- 
vinces of Chekiang, Kiangsi, Fokien, Hupeh, ami Yunnan, ami 
cultivated specimens from Hongkong and India. 
In A. Fordii, the flowers are developed before the entire leaves ; 
the petals are broad and rounded ; the styles are very shortly 
bifid, and the apiculate capsule is not wrinkled. 
3. Aleurites triloba, Forst. Char. Gen. (1776), p. 112, cum ic, et 
Prod. PI. Ins. Austral., p. 68. 
Aleurites moluccana, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. iv. (1805), p. 590; 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr., vol. xv, 2, p. 723. 
Aleurites commutator Geisel. Crot. Monogr., p. 82. 
Aleurites Albino,: Pers. Syn., vol. ii., p. 579. 
Aleurites rordi folia. Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, vol. i., p. 49, 
non Dryandra cordata, Thunb. 
Aleurites lobata, Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 1, p. 756. 
Aleurites lancifolia, Blanco, op. cit., p. 757. 
Garni r turn c»rdi folium, Ga-rtn. Fruct., vol. ii., j>. 195. t. 125, f. 2. 
Camirium oleosum, Reinw. ex Blume, Cat. Gew. P.iitenz.. 
p. 104. 
Jatropha moluccana, Linn. Sp. PL, ed. 1 (1753), p. 1006. 
Malaya ami Polynesia, and naturalised in many other tropical 
4. Aleurites trisperma, Blan< 
Aknriifs Suponaria, Blanc 
Philippine Islands. 
The seeds of this species 
B<([uc«, ,«</, and they are so m 
have been mistaken 'for them. 
XXIII.-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, lately a member of the ga^eni 
the Boyal 
of Horticultur*'. been appointed orchid -rower at tl 
Botanic Gardens. St. Louis, U.S.A. 
J. B. Louis PlERRE.-This eminent French b - 
fel in Paris, October :>,0. 1 '.»■.;.. deserves s..„i, »-.v. 
as a worker at Kew and as a - 
andLibrarv. Several 
appeared, but the following autobiographical note, exi 
