410 



was prepared from a flowering specimen produced by an offset 

 from Miss Geoghegan's original plant, which was sent to Kew in 

 April of the present year. Its flowers are deep rose-pink. 



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The Flora of the Bombay Presidency— The fourth and penultimate 

 part of the second volume of Dr. T. Cooke's work, prepared at 

 Kew and hearing the above title, was published in July. It 

 contains the families Eupliorbiaceae to Araceae, in part as to the 

 first and last, and comprises pages 625 to 816 ; thus the second 

 volume already exceeds the first by 170 pages. ' But those who 

 use the book will not be disposed to criticism on this point, as 

 much useful information is added to the purely descriptive 

 matter. It is interesting to note that there are no Coniferae, 

 Cycadaceae, or G asuarinaceae indigenous to the Bombay Presi- 

 dent, but the author includes brief descriptions and gives 

 references to figures of the principal species belonging to these 

 families found in gardens. This course is followed under all the 



families for useful and ornamental plants, as well as prominent 

 weeds. 



Taking the whole of India, Orchids are far more numerous 

 in species than any other family. In {he Bombay Presidency 

 they number only 73 species, belonging "V,..~ mera, 17 of which 

 are represented by only one species each, ^.abenaria (17 species) 



d • f j ° nly genus re P re sented by more than five species. 

 Mnstylus, five species, and Platanthera, one species, are restored 

 to generic rank. Judging from various deviations from other 

 authorities, Dr. Cooke has worked on careful and critical lines. 



rank. M 



M 



M. 



ran*. M paradisiaca, Linn., has been made the type, and 

 M. sapientum the variety, for reasons stated. Some previous 



«fnS1 ? Ve treated them tersely. There are also many 

 valuable notes on some of the other cultivated species. M. rosacea, 

 J acq., and M. superba, Roxb., are the only indigenous species. 



W. B. H. 



The Orchids of the Malay Peninsula.-The first part of the 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, by H.N. Ridley, 

 ZtlJv'^ ?r 1 ? Ct0 1 r ^ of the Bot »nic Gardens, Singapore, is 

 4^lJ Zl nr £ l ? rders Hydrocharidaceae, Orchiduceae and 



hiuSJ f 6 ' Hydrocharidaceae six species are enumerated, 



•UvSfi ? t V S 7w any genera ' and thus the bulk of the work is 

 ta^arL \ ^"f^ for tt is b etter to consider the Apos- 

 oZ?ZZ~Z Te f! ed aS a diBtinct Order-as an ancestral tribe of 



the ItSf ' **SF* they are less di8tinct from Cypripedieae than are 

 aefinttn TA he T gr i at Sllb -° rd er Monandreae. In fact, Mr. Ridley's 

 OrtS ™ fi£ 0> t llda '1? e would excl ™*e Cypripedieae from that 

 Tb7 nZlJJi P °J len ' 8tigmas and rostellum we concerned. 



PtaJ^ff**' in the , sense of B entham and Hooker's Genera 

 iT^t 1°™ a Very large and important element in the Flora, 

 secies being enumerated, arranged in 90 genera. Of this 



