102 
The plant is oa oe cymosa, Hk., figured in Hooker’s Icones 
Plantarum, table 591, from Burke and Zeyher’s Magaliesberg 
collections (Aapjes River). In 1890 I received the plant from 
Dr. Brock, a medical man residing in Pretoria, with an account of 
its deleterious effect upon stock. 
tht ia ce ee a “Si native he Sierra Leone, is used as 
a rat-pois The root is the part em 
The eltintmiion of the: eet petite prs; probably a glucoside, 
does not come within my purvi 
P. MAcCOWAN, 
Government Botanist. 
would appear from the symptoms and post-mortem appear- 
ances presented by the stomach that the plant is a local irritant 
as wellas a strong nerve stimulant, but without making any direct 
exiperlittenti it is impossible to do m more than suggest a trial of 
such anodynes and sedatives as chloral hydrate in doses of half an 
ounces for the first dose, followed by one-ounce doses very two 
hours until the symptoms are tie Tincture of pas ee 
D. HUTCHEON, 
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. 
V.—RESEARCH IN JODRELL LABORATORY, 
1876-1900. 
The Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the 
advancement of Science, commonly spoken of as the Devonshire 
Comm mmission, in its Fourth Report (1874), p. 10, expressed the 
afforded at Kew to those persons te may a inclined to follow 
that branch of science.” Effect w S given to this recommenda- 
tion by the liberality of the late T. 3: Phillips Jodrell, Esq., 
who built and equipped the — laboratory, which has since borne 
his name, at his own expen Kew Report, 1875, p. 2). It w: ep 
mia 3) and immediately brought into use in 1876 (Kew Repor 
Pp. 9, 
I ssary to explain that the Laboratory is not 
educational. instizntion. Its purpose is to afford facilities for 
h o aterial supplied by Kew. Those who conduct 
rare in it are assumed, therefore, to be already ¢ conversant with 
heir investigations 
no more mesa cr than te friendly advice as the Kew 
em. 
From 1876 to 71802 ¢ the Saleentiry was under the general 
vision of the Assistant Director (from — chess In 1892 
ye Kew Bulletin, 1892, pp. 245, 246) D - Dukinfield Scott, 
-R.S., 5 pe the post of timcacs ilies er, 
During the period of its existence the Jodrell Laboratory has 
amply fulfilled the anes of its founder. A pentane 
super- 
