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presented a specimen of this interesting tree. Kew possessed no 
specimen of a cis um — Barbados, pe no specimen belonging 
to the species in question. JS. cilia He UB. a native of 
North Brazil, syinteted both by rice aid Tra nd referred 
toasa rubber- tree, is remar Kable in having ashinpieacaaly ciliated 
leaves. The flowers are unknow 
Besides these rubber-trees ee to the Huphorbiacee, a 
number of the Apocynacee are figured, including the new genus 
pg sik eee Stapf, founded upon African species formerly referred 
ickxia,a Malayan genus, Funtumia elastica and F. africana 
pe ne species figured. 
Habenaria repens, Nutt. is noteworthy as one of the few aquatic 
orchids. It is widely spread in America, from South Carolina 
and Florida to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and throughout the West 
Indies to Guiana and South Brazil. Few orchids have e anything 
approaching such a range of distribstion, toa orientalis, Hemsl., 
new genus of Biracew relate esia and Carrierea is 
dedicated to the recently deceased oe Keisuké Ito, one of the 
pioneers of modern botany in Japan, and to Dr. Tokutaro Ito, his 
agate Scat a studied at — and enriched the library 
of ra panese books on botany. G eee um, 
Rolfe Cian as is a new genus allied to Podopterus 
Vegetable Fibres——The papers relating to this subject, which 
have from time to time appeared in the Kew Bulletin, were 
collected in 1898, in a volume forming Additional Series, IT, 
The i eager for a purely technical publication of the kind, 
has b somewhat ey exhausted, and has for some time 
been ors of print. A new impression has therefore been issued, 
and is now on sale by His Majesty’s Stationery Office 
Plants presented to the Herbarium Aig 1900.—Dr. K 7 
616 sheets of Russian cornet Dr. “3 = concept 
Austro-Hu 
35 from New Guinea, etc.; Mr. F. 
species of a Dr. A. Hen 
Yunnan, and ~ 
ss ae specimens of 23 new 
ry, 15 oe specimens from Szemao, 
<wangsi, collected by Mr. H. B. Morse ; 
iss F. M. Rei uz specimens from Kiukiang; Mr. St. George 
geo a walladlea from Kamtchatka and em A i 
ng ne 
; Mr. C. Curtis, collections from 
a neluding 62 rubber-yielding plants ; Mr. H. N, eres f 
