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East Africa, by Mr. E. Hutchins ; British East Africa and Pemba, 

 by Miss Barraud ; British East Africa, by Mr. H. Powell ; British 

 Central Africa, by Mr. J. M. Purves ; Rhodesia, by Mr. C E F 

 Allen; Southern Rhodesia, named, by Miss L. S. Gibbs ; W.'h. 

 Johnson, Mozambique, by the Companhia de Mocambique. 



Purchased : — Zenker, Cameroons. 



Mascarene Islands. Presented ;— Aldabra, by Mr H )> 



Thomasset; Seychelles, by Mr. R. Dupont ; Mauritius, by 

 Mr. P. Koenig. J 







Purchased .— Boncard, Madagascar Fungi. 



South Africa. Presented.— Schlechter, named, by Dr. H. 

 Schmz ; Transvaal, &c„ by the Transvaal Department of Agri- 

 culture ; named Transvaal Asclepiadaceae, by Mr. P. Conruth • 

 Natal, by the Botanic Gardens, Natal. 



Purchased .— Pegler, Transkei. 



North America. Presented .—By Judge J. R. Churchill ; 



ijindheimer's Texan plants of 1849-51, fasc. v., by the Missouri 

 Botanic Garden ; Hebbasch, Labrador, by Sir W. MacGregor 

 G.C.M.G., C.B. 



Purchased — C. F. Baker, Pacific slope; W. W. Eircleston, 

 N.E. United States. s& 



Mexico. Presented .—By the United States National Museum. 

 Purchased: — Palmer, Mexico ; Pringle, Mexico. 



West Indies. Jamaica and Bermudas, named, by the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



TROPICAL South America. Presented .—Sao Paulo, Brazil, by 

 Dr. A. Usteri. 



Purchased: — Lehmann, Colombia, &c, unnamed; Fiebrig, 

 Bolivia ; Hassler, Paraguay, unnamed. 



Perhaps the most noteworthy accession was a fine set of partly 

 named French Sudan and Congo plants, comprising over 1,500 

 sheets, presented by the collector, Dr. Auguste Chevalier. The 

 collection has not yet been examined in detail, but many of the 

 specimens come from regions that were previously botanically 

 unknown or little explored. 



Specimens of numerous interesting economic plants were 

 received, amongst which the following may be mentioned : 

 Gordeauxia ecfu/is, Hem si M a low bush which yields the "yeheb 

 nut" of Somaliland (see Keiv Bull, 1907, p. 361) ; Mascarrnhasia 

 elastica, K. Schum., the Mgoa rubber-tree of East Africa 

 (/.c\, p. 283) ; and Partheniiim argentatum, A. Gray, which yields 

 the Guayule rubber of Mexico (I.e.. v. 285). 



