from the coast, Mr. Smith considers that his collection is verv 
nearly complete for altitudes below 4,000 feet: it is certainlv „ne 
of the hnest botanical collections made in a limit,- 1 nvi in S ,uth 
America. The first set is in the Herharium ..f the New 'v,„k 
Botanical Garden, and has been nann-d i n l tr v pin i, v |) r \\ \\ 
Rusby, with the co-operation ef specialists. ^ '" 
A further instalment was received of Haasler'a t'ln-uav plants 
amounting to nearly 1,500 sheets. It include 1 hu l-n\h-'n\, , u . ,,t' 
the years l'.»00-li)02. Most of til • determination* have al.vadv 
been published in the JinfMiti <h rifrr',a>r />W*.s/V,>. under the 
title Plantar Ilass/rriaaa*'. edited bv Dr. U. (diolat, who still 
continues the list, in collaboration with Dv. Hassler.' Manv of 
the orders have been worked out by specialists. 
Mexican plant* was 
A valuable i 
received from 
Dr. Prior's se 
included Mr. 
re- issued specit 
collection of more 
Mr. C. G. Pringle 
t of Hooker and 
Pringle's collectioi 
3s of the same years 
A set of c 
Mr. Cecil Andr 
•eTs, 
wSlo^ired"! 
One of the m 
100 drift-fruits 
;liM 
stdst^Mhe 
Nymphaea capensis, T/t if nb.— Through the conrtesv of Dr. F. R. 
kjellman, Director of the Botanic (iarden. Pj^ala, k'ew has had 
the ty v ,> specimen o| .\ , : ] (i;m , and Mr. .J. K. 
Drnuanond furnishes the following note on the results of his 
comparison of the Sou; ften referred 
to N. stellata, Willd. 
Xi/mpliaea rajwnsis, Thunberg in Prodromufl Plant. Cap. Pars 
, I. 14, (not of Willd 
e not seen Krause Nc 
ng to the brevity of his 
comparison with 
