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Mr. King, White Rock, Hastings.—Hat-pins with heads 
formed of the fruit of the water chestnut (Trapa natans), also hat- 
pins, necklet and charm of Rhodesian mahogany seeds (Afzelia 
quanzensts). 
Mr. S. T. Dunn, F.L.S., Superintendent, Botanic and Forestry 
Department, Hong Kong. —Chinese chair made of blackwood 
(Dalbergia sp. ?). 
Mr. A. E. Evans, Botanical and Agricultural Department, Gold 
Coast.—Specimens of various economic products from Aburi and 
Tarkwa, including pods of Divi Divi (Caesalpinia coriaria), Soy 
beans (Glycine hispida), fruits of allspice (Pimenta officinalis), and 
of wild clove (Pimenta acris). Samples of rubber from the Para 
Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). These samples have been sub- 
mitted to Messrs. Lewis and Peat, Mincing Lane, London, E. C. “ 
who report upon ‘them as being of excellent quality and equal in 
value to best plantation rubber. 
well prepared rubber from the Lagos silk-rubber tree 
March 4th last, as being of fair quality and of the value of about 
£6 per cwt., and comparing very favourably with China crude 
camphor. 
J. M. H. 
Sapium anadenum, Pittier, and S. pleiostachys, Schum. and Pittier.— 
In Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, t. 2889, these eee species were 
reduced to S. jamaicense, Swartz Thereupon Mr. Pittier wrote 
questioning the correctness of this ‘step, hicks was primarily taken 
in consequence of an error of his in identification. At t ate 
Kew possessed no authenticated specimen of either S. ae enum 
or S. pleiostachys ; but Mr. Pittier had referred Donnell-Smith’s 
2607, from Guatemala, to the latter. This number is represented 
at Kew, and is,as Mr. Pittier now admits, true S. jamaicense, so 
there was some justification for the assumption that the rest of the 
specimens he had under observation were conspecific with the 
Guatemalan plants. With regard to the reduction of S, anadenum, 
I was influenced by the fact that glands are sometimes present, as 
shewn i in his photographic figure, and Pittier’s own statement that it 
“might prove identical with S. ‘shite on examination of more 
complete material,” Seite 
However, through the oie of the Curators of the United 
States National Herbarium at Washington the original specimens 
of S.anadenum and S. pleiostachys have been sent to Kew for exami- 
nation and comparison. The result is that I now think they may 
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their leaves being borne on edlaciealy long, aeedee petioles and in 
their less numerous, less conspicuous lateral veins ; in their shorter, 
