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Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, " who, with untiring 

 generosity, has surpassed all recent contributors in enriching the 

 Kew collections with rare and novel plants." 



Hooker's Icones Plantarum— The first part of the twenty-ninth 

 volume of this work containing plates 2801 to 2825, appeared in 

 December. It contains illustrations of five proposed new genera, 

 namely, Indohingia and Geopanatc, Hemsl. (Araliaceae), both 

 from Seychelles ; Neoschimpera, Hemsl. (Rubiaceae), also from 

 Seychelles ; Sinowilsonia, Hemsl. (Hamamelidaceae), from China, 

 and E ') '< teopho rb ia, Stapf, which differs from Euphorbia in having 

 a ilrupaceous fruit, from Western Tropical Africa. Three plates 

 are devoted to the genus Corylopsis, and seven species are recorded 

 from China, six of which are new. The Indian specimens of this 

 genus, hitherto regarded as belonging to one species, are here 

 referred to three species. In addition to these there are three or 

 four distinct species in Japan. Sinowilsonia is' very similar to 

 Corylopsis in foliage, but the flowers are unisexual and probably 

 dioicous, though only the females are known. The interesting 

 genus Glematoclethra, Planch., is figured and three new species 

 described. Darandea, Planch., hitherto very imperfectly known, 

 is fully described by Dr. Stapf, who enumerates 13 species, six of 

 which are new; the rest had been referred to Penicillanthemum, 

 Vieill., Hugonw, L. and Ancistrocladus, Wall. Amongst other 

 noteworthy subjects are Eryngium pilularioides , Hemsl. & Rose, 

 Wtelandta elegans Baill., Nepenthes Macfarlanei, Hemsl., and 

 Stevnt Rebaiuhatm, Hemsl. 



W. B. H. 



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 ^.r Dietrich Brandis brought out the " Forest Flora of North- 



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 n Into anrf CI 6 " hlgWy T 1C0me akl t0 ™*ing b °tanists 

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^hiii.cr tc w «n a.-* __. , *u*esi jiora, and at the same time 



a<Min<* tn it *n h™*. ™- vi *-^wt -ciora, ana at tlie same time 



?n crassineatL^nf / ght *™ v V nterestin S to foreste ™ ™ regards 



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ew S f art W f * ]"*V Em P^e, the vastness of which 



4,r0tWies' are K £5^{° a PP reciate than himself. Over 



^^ZZ^LVt^l C? * work ' wherea ^ in the 



the Introduction to this ^l ?„ 1 Mattl U ea ' as » Pointed out in 

 one-tenth of that nl^hL^hTdl^ *°* ^ *»* 



■SWiySSJJS t t:f T r P* '«*** himself with 

 key to the situatfo* ?e 8 wit W , ?" f ° re8t ****<**,*»* the 

 up of local Forest ManTOllSn^ e -5! ^ in the gradual drwwin * 

 of restricted areas S ,i § Wlt , h the known forest products 



purposes. Sir SSSSurSKi S^ feBBional lines ' f or workin « 



BranaiB 18 deposed to think that the time 



