Jamaica Tea.— Several samples of Tea grown and prepared ai 
rlnremom, .Jainaiea, have been presented to the Museum l>v 
Cox at the request of Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., 
together with Tea grown and prepared at the Cinchona Planta- 
tions, Jamaica, from Assam plants received in the Island in 1868. 
This latter specimen was forwarded to Kew by Mr. R. Thompson 
'n 1874. Another sample from this island was obtained from the 
Jamaica Court, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
Oil Seeds.— Seed* of Trlfuirin < i<h>nt<t -. Hook, f., which 
is described as a lofty climber of the order Cucurbitaceae, have 
recently been received from a Liverpool firm as an oil-seed from 
the Gold Coast, for determination. Samples of these seeds have 
frequently been submitted for identification ; so far as was 
previously known, they are only used as a food, for which 
purpose the plant is commonly cultivated by negroes in Tropical 
Africa, the seeds being boiled before eaten. 
Specimens of the fruit, which is about two feet long and is 
acutely ribbed, together with examples of the large orbicular 
seeds from Lagos and the Gold Coast, and germinating seeds from 
the Royal Gardens, are exhibited in case 57, Museum No. I. 
Additions to the Herbarium during 1904.— Donations ot speci- 
mens were made by about ninety persons and institution-, and 
amounted to over 8,000 sheets. The specimens purchased 
amounted to over 4,000 sheets. The principal collections are 
enumerated below. 
Various Parts op the World. Presented.— Mosses, by Dr. 
"V. F. Brotherus; type-specimens of his species of Inocybe, bj 
Prof. C. H. Peck. 
Purchased .-^Heller, Fungi of Puerto Rico and Hawaii: 
Kneucker, '* Gramineae Exsimitae," lief, xv.-xvi. 
Europe. Presented .— " Hieraciotheca gallica et hispanica." 
fasc. xiii.-xiv., by M. G. Gautier. 
Purchased .— Dahlstedt, Scandinavian Uieraciu. Cent, xvi . ; \\*. 
H. Pearson, British Hepaticae ; Woloszczak, " Flora polomca 
exsiccata," Cent. x. and xi., part. 
Orient. Presented:— Cyprus, by Miss E. A. Samson. 
Eastern and Central Asia. Presented .— Orchidaceae and 
. ■ ,. . 
Mr. H. J. Elwes; China, principally Hong Kong, by Mr. W.J. 
Tutcher. 
Purchased .— Takeda, Japan, Cent, i.-ii. 
India. Presented .—By the Botanic Gardens, C^cntte ; by Sir 
D. Brandis K CLE. ; by Lieut.-Col. A. A. Barrett; Himalayan 
Moss. >. by Mr. J. F. Dnthie. 
