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Professor A. Cogniaux, who had been entrusted with the elabora- 
tion of the Orchidaceae for Martius’ Flora Brasiliensis. They were 
very largely used for the illustration of that work, and Barbosa 
Rodrigues’ share in this field was thus, after all, recognised 
and secured. Through the good offices of Professor Cogniaux, 
Lady Thiselton-Dyer was enabled to copy, for the Kew collection, 
a set of about 550 of Barbosa Rodrigues’ coloured original 
drawings, one of the finest contributions of this kind within a single 
order. 
Barbosa Rodrigues was more fortunate with his monograph of 
the Brazilian palms. The first impulse to it was given when, in 
1872, he was commissioned by his Government to continue Martius’ 
studies of the palms of Brazil. He took the task up with his usual 
enthusiasm, working almost entirely from the standpoint of the 
field botanist, studying, analysing, and drawing on the spot. Fora 
long time it seemed as if his work would not be recognised and would 
share the fate of his Iconographia of the Orchidaceae, but at length, 
in 1902, he had the great satisfaction of a special vote being 
passed by the Brazilian Congress for the publication of his Sertum 
Palmarum Brasilianarum. He himself came to Europe and super- 
intended the printing at Brussels. It consists of two large folio 
volumes of 140 and 110 pages of text and 91 and 83 coloured plates, 
and contains descriptions of 42 genera and 382 species, of which 
no less than 166 are credited to him as author. The originals for 
the plates were all drawn by himself, often with a delicacy to which 
the prints hardly do justice. He was a fertile writer, and his 
publications deal not only with botany but with many subjects 
pertaining to archaeology, palaeontology, ethnography, and the 
Indian languages. Ss 
0. 8. 
Caraipa africana—In 1868, Oliver described under this name a 
doubtful specimen collected by Baikie in the Niger region 
(Fl. Trop. Afr., vol i., p. 172). Caraipa is a genus of Ternstroe- 
miaceae, and was previously known only from Tropical America, 
but this presented no phytogeographical difficulty, as it is well 
known that there is a strong common element in the floras of West 
. Amer. 
herbarium sheet, Oliver referred C. africana to the family Diptero- 
carpaceae, but without suggesting a genus ; and it has now been 
rests on comparison with Schweinfurth’s No, 4272, from Djur Awet, 
uoted without number ey Gilg. Schweinfurth’s No. 2678 and 
um’s No, 925, which Gi g also refers to M. caloneurus, seem 
rather different. 
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