riif la.st 2J pages of pan ii., sect i of vol iv 
of Mr. N. K. Brown's account of the ^ma'lln 
African Erimn ,,,■ K p},il, ),/.;,/ to H".r„iinn» t A. 
is a new monotypic genus, Platj/njh/.r. X. E. 
Mr. Rust, near Riversdale. The species i 
N. E. Brown number M, of which nine are n 
bution exhibits the same peculiarities as that of 
• genera of South 
hr., discovered bv 
leacribed by Mr. 
The authors wctv greatlv assisted in their woi 
_»■ of the le-rl 
(Upsala), Harvey < Dublin), and Tausch ( Trag » 
wvw of those herbaria at their disposal. Mm 
.aria <»f Thunberg 
placed the Ert- 
reover, Dr. Bolus 
• genera of South 
George Bentham.-Of the many .listing 
the Royal Gardens,' Kew, as a sci'entit: 
npi,i-..;i.-h,-, <;,.,»•-,. |; tM ,| i;im f,, r ,„,. .lur.iti. 
of a biography of that boranist* by Mr. I 
—for a copy of which the Lihrarv at K 
courtesy of the publishers— has an especial 
of the Kew Bulletin. 
The materials for Mr. .Jackson's work 
exclusively from an autobiography of Ml 
for the years 1K.>0 to 1SS3 in 20 eloselv 
num.ral.l,. letters, and miscellaneous meii 
biographical MSS. offer advantages of s 
•i-' ' ■ . : ~ ~. • '■■■"'' ■ ■",. 
a siugularlv varied lite -ial. literarv. 
son of a distinguished father— Sir Samuel I 
Bentham, by B. Daydon Jackson : London. J. M. 
, *f, obituary notic. * in the Journals of the B 
^" ; .'.n>- -V,.v„ -. v..I. xxx.: the Eloge, by Sir 
ceedings of the Linnean Society, voir-, fur 1>77-; 
biography in the Annals of Botany, vol. xii. 
