155 
2'4 cm. longi, subferrugineo-tomentelli praetereaque pilis paucis 
atris instructi. Inflorescentia generis. Calyx infructescens pedicello 
ad fere 2 cm. longo suffultus, ad 5*2 em. longus, basi poculiformis, 
utrinque pubescens. Fructus dense ablo-hirsutus. 
Sriracha, Nawng Kaw, in evergreen jungle, 30 m., Kerr, 2087. 
Siamese name, Wang Sum (ex Kerr). 
XVI—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Jonn Lampourne, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant 
oe of Government Plantations in the Federated Malay 
States, 
G. Maw.—Mr. George Maw, who was born in 1832, was a man 
of very wide interests and for more than half a century a prolific 
contributor to various scientific journals. He was the head of a 
firm of manufacturers of artistic tiles and other kinds of pottery at 
Broseley in Shropshire. At first he turned his attention to British 
Botany, and in 1853 contributed to the “ Phytologist,” a paper on 
the plants of the Valleys of the Taw, the Tamar and the Torridge. 
He found Lilium pyrenaicum in a naturalised condition near Molton 
in S. Devon. In 1860 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 
Mr. George Maw went on an expedition together to investigate the 
flora of the Greater Atlas, the outeome of which was the well-known 
book of travels published by Macmillan in 1878, to which Maw 
contributed an account of the geology of the country, and also 
Mr. Ball’s “ Specilegium Florae Maroccanae,’ contained in 
Volume xvi of the Journal of the Linnean Society, in which a 
large number of new species are described and many of them 
figured. About 1875 Mr. Maw began to concentrate his attention 
on the genus Crocus and travelled extensively in Greece and Asia 
Minor, the head-quarters of these delightful plants, to study and 
collect the species in their native localities. After many preliminary 
studies, published in the ‘“ Gardeners’ Chronicle ” from 1877-81, and 
in the Journal of the Linnean Society, he published his great mono- 
graph on the genus Crocus in 1886 with quarto plates of all the 
67 species drawn and coloured by himself. He presented to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens an almost complete set of, the living plants 
of the different species, and so keen was his interest that he came 
to Kew and planted them with his own hands to ensure the species 
being ccrrectly separated. Sir Joseph Hooker dedicated to him a 
