102 



Uing'i specimen is precisely similar to that of Lvall, and is 



so sterilp. 



also sterile. 



Species Exclusae. 



Bhodymenia fimbriata, Hook. & Harv. in Lond. Journ. Bot., 1847, 



VOl. VI. n 40^ ' ' 



vol. vi., p. 405. 



fimbriata, Hook. & Harv., though a true Rhodo 



W««, has never been published as such. It was included by 

 J. Vgardh as one of the synonyms of -the New Zealand R. 

 mtmbranacea, but it is, as shown above, quite a distinct species. 



PmnhVJL 110 e T ld " nce to P rove that Rhodophyllis fimbriata (nov. 

 comb.) occurs in New Zealand. 



Rhodophyllis ? angustifrons Harv. in Hook. Pi. New Zeal., 1855, 

 p 3 I L ; g - Epi °" 1876 ' p - 368 ; Lain ^ Rev - List ' 19 »l' 



^MwamiiMitiott of the type specimens show that the frond 



V3&R t\£?^* ° f th !. g , enus ^allophyllis. The plant is 

 probably an elongated form of G. coccinea, Harv. 



En* ° d l^ yll n S ST ?! Ag - £* £*' Nov ' Zeal " 1877 > No - ^2 ; 



^knovna P sr^^i amg ^ Ust ' 1901 ' P' 34L A 8 P ecies 

 iunv Known as Uaspedocarpus erosus, Schmitz. 



Rhodophyllis chathamensis, Cotton, Kew Bull., 1907, No. 2, 

 •^tt&ST bG "^^ aS a -^onym of Om^- 



Teil L Abt iTwfiKrS F,on , d - P- 8 ! En §^r Pflanzenfamilien 

 of the froml ;narv'l,' "T" ° f Certain structural peculiarities 

 as a syno "y „ nd T 4 orSa. * 2?? 1 t0 <*■"**«■ »™«> Harv., 



two, if nottW , dtaHPS gathenn ^ of the latter plant contain 



at„ '. « "»>ee, uistmct species, v/ HnJ/n^h, ,//„•- r£_i. • 



Homb) 



to 0. Bombrmianabnt 7^: ™? mi }* and a tbi rd plant allied 



bynotobservin^ L InSf ? tly d > tinct from **■ T ^ writer 



specimens, Sl^cftMSS^?^ the ° riginal New ZeaIaud 

 chathamensis. ' l ' c '> the new species Rhodophyllis 



XVI.-BANANA CULTIVATION IN EGYPT. 



A. W. hsrnwn tt>i,„.,- 



as Secretary of the newly 



us the following 



within 



Within recent years that the? T 81 " * 11 in E gypt it is only 

 systematically fi la^ p Ute L Cnlti SL tion has be * n carried on 

 *e tact that all th AiTfe J%* wa * °™S ^eatly to 



wn ln the country were of tall 



