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From 1841, when the late Sir William Hooker became Director 
of Kew, the '• Botanical Magazine M lias been essentially a Kew 
publii-ation. but the " Horuis Veitchii " contains a list of V22 plates 
for which Messrs. Veitch contributed the material, either directly 
or indirectly, as the original introducers. 
In the sketches of the lives of the travellers and hybridists, as 
well as in the notes on the plants introduced by the firm, there 
are many facts of the greatest importance and value in the history 
of botany and gardening, and Messrs. Veitch deserve the thanks 
of all persons interested in these sciences for the admirable 
manner in which they have put them on record. 
Flora of Tropical Africa.— The issue of another part of this work 
has to be recorded. This part (vol. iv., sect. 2, part ii.) concludes 
the elaboration of the Tr ..ph-al African Cui,r»lrit/a<w (w. l'AV 
21)6) by Mr. J. O. Maker and Dr. A. V>. Rendle. and also contains 
The Conv<>lrulnn>a>; the greater part of which was published in 
the first part of section 2 of volume iv.. comprise 286 species in 
28 genera. Among them are only 11 new species, all but two 
described by Dr. Rendle. The small number of novelties finds 
by Dr. Hallier f., of Hamburg, who published a series of articles 
on it containing numerous descriptions ol new species. The 
largest genus is I )„>,,, n>a. with 151 species. The definitions ami 
the arrangement of the genera adopted l,y the author.- coincide on 
the whole with the system proposed by Hallier f. in Kngler's Rot. 
Jahrb. xvi. (1892), pp. 453-591. 
Most of the genera have a wide distribution, extending either 
to the Indo-Maiayan region or re tropical America or all over the 
tropics. There is, however, a distinct endemic element of generic 
rank comprising about one-quarter of the genera (with about 
40 species) and developed mainly in the dry regions of East 
The 8olanacea° comprise 11 genera with 131 species, of which 
over Km belong to S'danam The only endemic (and monotypic 
genus) is Discopodium, ranging from Abyssinia to Fernando p«> 
and Nyasaland. Five species, all of Solatium, have been described 
here for the first time. Most species of Sohnnnn are peculiar to 
Africa, verv few extending to Arabia or beyond it to Baluchistan 
or Seind;' only three have a wide range outside Africa. 
Although the genus is so abundantly represented in America. 
there are only two species common to America and tropical 
Africa, and those two are weeds. Of the other genera, Capsicum, 
Centrum, Datura, Xi>-"fiana at i > < distinct!} 
American element, and some of them have undoubtedly been 
introduced from America within historical times. 
The Scrophulariaceae are represented in this part of volume ii. 
by 40 genera (their total, according to the Ola vis, is 54.) with 227 
species. There are no new genera among them, bur :>L new species 
