451 



sublacerata, 8-9*5 mm. longa, inter carinas 7-9 nervis, marginibus 

 * angnstissimis inflexis ; gluma superior, lanceolata, acuta, 6-6*5 mm* 

 longa, 3-nervis, papyracea ; valva inferior vacua, oblonga, obtusa, 

 hyalina, enervis vel sub 1-nervis, 3"5— 4 mm. longa ; valva superior 

 stipitiformis in aristam gracilem abiens, columna circiter 15 mm. 

 longa arete torta nigro-fusca nitente, seta paulo longiore pallida vel 

 arista spiculae sessilis basalis et subbasalis imperfecta vel ad 

 setulam minutam reclucta ; palea nulla. Spiculae pedicellatae 

 sessilibus similibus, sed neutrae, paulo obliquae vel tortae, alis 

 inaequilateris, gluma superiori 5-nervi, valvis admodum reductis 

 vel superiore suppressa* Anther ae 1/5 mm. longae. Caryopsis 

 ambitu elliptico-oblouga, a dorso compressa, 3 mm. longa. 

 9 A. Gookeij Btapf ex Woodrow in Joiirn. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vol. xiii., p. 438 (nomen tantutn). 



India orientals. Western Ghats, Sakarpattar, near Lanauli. 

 Woodroiv I 



LVIII -MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Presentations to Gardens.— The collections of living plants at 

 Kew are maintained in as complete and representative a condition 

 as is possible by means of purchase and exchange. Plants that 

 are likely to prove valuable in distant parts of the empire are pro- 

 pagated and distributed as far as the resources of the establishment 

 will allow. Kew is largely indebted to other botanic gardens for 

 contributions of plants and seeds, especially to the gardens at 

 Calcutta, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Jamaica and Trinidad. 

 From the Arnold Arboretum about 500 packets of seeds collected 

 by Mr. Wilson in China and a collection of choice trees and 

 shrubs have been received. A selection of Chinese trees and 

 shrubs f. 



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united. States Department of Agriculture. Exchanges nave oeen 

 effected with the botanic gardens of Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and the 

 Colonial garden of the Congo Free State ; also with the botanic 

 gardens at Edinburgh, Glasnevin and Cambridge. From the 

 Rubber exhibition held at Olvmpia various rubber plants were 

 presented to Kew by exhibitors, including Urccolaand Purumeria 

 from Lieut.-Col. Wyllie, Rangoon ; Heoea guianensis from Mr. 

 J- G. van Hemert. Amsterdam ; Dichopsis gittta and Mimusops 

 Balata from Dr. W. Troup de Haas, Java ; and stems of Casiilloa 

 elastica from the Orizaba Ru bber Plantations, Ltd., Mexico. Tubers 



of Baphionacme ufifis, the source of Bitinga rubber, were presented 

 by the Companhia de Mozambique, 13 Austin Friars. Seeds of 

 Pouteria suaviswere purchased from Mr. E. Frosio, Paysandn, 

 Uruguay, and from them a batch of young plants has been raised ; 

 these will be readv for distribution next year. With the assis- 

 tance of Mr. J. A." Daw, Fazienda Dumont, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 

 a large quantity of seeds" of Remanso (M. piauhyensis) and Jequie 



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ned and distributed to 



of botanical and agricultural stations in the tropics ; seeds were 

 also received from Mr. D. R. O'Sullivan Beare, H.M. Consul, 

 Kahia. Mr. T. A. DcrriemSniith, Tresco, presented a large collec- 

 tion of new or rare plants which had been brought by his son, 

 Captain A. A. Dorrien-Smiih, from New Zealand ; the Hon. 



