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floret is distinctly tilobed to about 3 to 3 of its total length, the 
lobes being narrow, acute, and sparingly ciliolate near their tips. 
The flower is constantly diandrous, the anticous stamen being sup- 
pressed. The mature grain is broad-elliptic in cross-section with 
the longer axis in the median plane. js 
aking into consideration the lateral compression which is par- 
ticularly obvious in the upper involucral glume and the type of 
nervation which, however faint, is still preserved in the lower 
involucral glume, I cannot help thinking that Garnotiella approaches 
nearer Chrysopogon than Sorghum, and theoretically it can no 
ubt be reduced to the former, or, with Hackel, to Andropogon, 
sensu lato. But it approaches to no species in particular, and 
Hackel himself calls it “ species valde peculiaris.” To my mind it 
is a type as well marked and as easily recognisable as the most dis- 
tinct genera in Andropogoneae, and quite worth being retained as a 
ip number, wing to the fact, however, that it was already 
described as Andropogon leptos by Stendel, the specific name 
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XLV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. E. Baruson, of the Imperial College of Science and 
Technology, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
~ Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant Mycologist in 
the Federated Malay States. . 
Mr. Bateson, who has recently obtained a first class in the 
examination for the Associateship of the College, will undergo a 
urther course of three months’ training at Kew and the Imperial 
College before proceeding to take up his duties in the Federated 
Malay States. 
Mr. Freperick G. Spring, of the University of Aberdeen, 
holder of the University Diploma and National Diploma in Agri- 
culture, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
