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Mr. 8. T. Dunn, F.L.S., Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry 
Dept., Hong Kong. Sandals and clogs made partially of the 
sheaths of Phyllostachys Quilloi, also specimens of the sheaths, 
from Japan, and ropes and cables of various dimensions, made of 
Bamboo, generally used on Chinese junks. 
Mr. H. liard, Ealing. Portion of stem of a species of 
Populus bitten out by beavers, Minnedosa, Manitoba. 
Dr. Treub, Director of the Dept. of Agriculture, Buitenzorg, 
Java. A collection of photographs of Gutta and of Rubber 
plantations, Tjipetir, Java. 
Assistant Director, Kew. Plant of Nototriche turritella and 
photograph of the plant in its native habitat, from the slopes of 
El Misti, near Arequipa, Peru, alt. 13000-15000 ft., collected by 
the donor March, 1903, 
J. M, a 
but the specimens had remained unidentified, 
When the habitat of £. ovalifolia and its mode of seed dispersal 
are taken into consideration, the great extension of the known area 
of distribution offers no serious difficulties, It is a prickly tree, 
30-50 ft. high, with wide-spreading branches. In Pemba and the 
Comoro Islands it occurs in swamps on the sea-shore ; in Ceylon, 
according to Trimen,* it is rather common in low country, by the 
banks of Tivers and streams; in Burma, according to Kurz,* it 18 
beach jungles ; and in Samoa, and the Fiji and Tonga Islands it 
Zahlbruckner ; and in Java, where it occurs almost exclusively on 
the banks of streams, pools and morasses, it is found at various 
pe ces up to 2,300 ft., althongh most frequent in the low 
plains. 
An teresting question, which at once suggests itself, is whether 
£. ovalifolia was originally a littoral plant which has spread inland, 
or an inland plant which has spread to the littoral region, Guppys 
who has studied similar cases in the Pacific, is of opinion that the 
to have spread to the sea-shore, the small inland area and the 
patie 3e greater range of littoral distribution are what might be 
PUR, Sucre aren a mere ee c credle Ned? ia 
* The references to EZ, ovalifolia are given at the eud of the note. 
