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Leaves decurved, or spreading at their bases ;_perianth- 
lobes ovate lanceolate, not constricted below their 
ips— 
Leaves concave Ls juke — fleshy up to their apical 
third cochlearis, Jacobi 
Leaves not concave or fleshy i in their apical third — 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate in outline, neck manifestly 
_ constricted — 
Terminal spine stout, markedly decurrent; leaves 
dull green (or striped with yellow) 
ertcana, Linn, 
Terminal spine comparatively slender, hardly de- 
~ current ; leaves a brighter green 
ert, Haworth 
Leaves oblong-linear in outline, scarily pede at 
e nec 
Perianth lobes pale amber-coloured upwards ; leaf 
tips ultimately revolute... Vera-Cruz, Ph. Miller 
Perianth lobes nae throughout leaf tips erect, 
rigid ...  lurida, Aiton 
LI—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. W. J. Turcuer, whose appointment as Assistant Superin- 
tendent in the Botanic and Forestry Department, Hong Kong, was 
recorded in K.B. 1891, p. 245, has been appointed Seperatendeat 
of the Department i in succession to Mr. 8. T. Dunn, resigned. 
Dr. Metonior Trevus.—The death of this distinguished 
botanist, which took place at Saint Raphaél, near Cannes, o 
October 3, 1910, deprives Kew of a warm and constant friend. 
Treub was born at Voorschoten, in Holland, on December 26, 
1851. He entered the University of Leiden in 1869 and became 
assistant in the Botanical Institute there in 1874. In November, 
1880, on the death of Dr. R. H. C. C. Scheffer, he was re 
ring 
lishment, and an annexe in "the shape of a mountain garden at 
Tjiboddas ‘established under the directorship of Teijsmann ; also a 
museum and an experimental station organised by his immediate 
predecessor. To these he was soon able to add a series of well 
equipped iekomtenbe. for prosecution of pha ological, 
chemical, and physiological ieee and to provide a spec 
laboratory reserved for the use of botanical investigators 
sseneek, connected with tropical agriculture, and the chief value of 
the help he has thus been able to afford to agricultural and other 
