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of Government Laboratories, Manila, to which Institution nine 
volumes of Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Ser. III., were sent in 
exchange. 
An interesting series of collections by Messrs. A. Whyro and 
D. Sim in the Republic of Liberia was communicated by Sir H. H. 
Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., on behalf of the Monrovian Rubber 
Companv. The collections were made in the following locali- 
ties:-^!) Within a radius of six miles round Monrovia: (2) In 
the hinterland of Monrovia, within a radius of 20 miles from 
Kaka Town: C\) in the basin of the Sinoe River. They com- 
prised over 260 species, of which 67 were found to be new. 
Sim's collections consisted chiefly of Apocynaceae, and the 
novelties have been described in the Addenda to Dyer. 11. Trop. 
Afr., vol. iv., sect. 1. Among the plants collected by Whyte were 
4 new genera and 58 new species, which have been described m 
a paper by Dr. <>. >;apf. .■milled - Contributions to the Flora ot 
Liberia " (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot, vol. xxxvii., pp. 79-X15). 
The first instalment, numbering 500 sheets, of an interesting 
collection from the Amazons region was acquired by puivli:..-^ 
from Dr. E. Ule. Besides exploring the Jurua and other Brazilian 
tributaries of the Amazons, Dr. Ule traversed much of the gronnd 
formerly botanized over by Spruce, and his collection 
supplementing those formed by the latter, actually contain pel 
species from such places as Tarapoto, where Spruce collected a 
very extensive series of specimens. 
Other valuable accessions were :— A series of over 500 Indian 
plants, including 160 Acantbaceae from 
presented by the Botanm <J.,rd.-n<. Calcutta : about 1 umvI.i 
plinth -..Il-Vted M M..-H-. M.T. Dawe and L. Bro^ 
sented by the former ; about 450 West Indian plants pr« 
the New York Botanical Garden; 300 plants from U 
fine,. nt , u . , - u i, u purchased from the collector, Mr. A. 1 1 
and 200 sheets of Elaine's Gaboon specimens, Presented by me 
late M. L. Pierre, who published descriptions .-md , 
affinity, of ,ien,uel de la 
Societe Lit 
Cotoneaster microphylla, Wall., naturalised in *&%*£&; 
S.T. Dunn nth }>■ U) records l 
t<t, Wall., as "said to be naturalised on Urean Down,m 
:.. witn uu 
conditions so— est in- actual i. 
One came from the chalk d ns. nea, Ventaor, in he Isle ot 
Wight, and *as communicated by Mr. F. B. Arm 
other was found by Mr. A. D. Annesley, of Amberley , Strom, 
Gloucestershire, on Eadborongh Common. 
of the Himalayas from Ka^hmii to bhotan. ami laiuuu 
