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Pseuderanthemum lilacinum, a native of Selangor, was received 
at Kew in®1909 from Mr. H. N.. Ridley under the sy Eranthemum 
Leijsmanii. The plant is, no doubt, closely related to E. Tetjsmanii, 
described by Clark in the materials for a Flora of the Malayan 
Peninsula (P. Teijsmanii, Stapf.), but it differs especially in being 
an erect shrub some three feet in height. It is a very suitable 
subject for a Tropical House. 
Flora Capensis.—The issue of the concluding part of the first 
section of Vol. V. of this work, edited by Sir W. T. Thiselton- 
yer, has now to be recorded. The section includes 747 pages, 
and has appeared in four parts, the dates of publication of which 
have been as follows :— 
Part I., pp. 1-224, was published June, 1901. 
Part II., pp. 225-448, was published May, 1910. 
Part IIIL., pp. 449-640, was published January, 1912. 
Part IV., pp. 664-end, was published June, 1912. 
The orders dealt with are the remaining Bicarpellatae— 
Acanthaceae—Plantagineae and Monochlamydeae—N yctagineae 
—Proteaceae. 
The Editor’s Preface, in which the history of the production of 
this important volume has been given in detail, is reproduced 
wi— 
* On’ the completion of Volume VII. the preparation of 
Volume IV. was taken up. Professor Francis Gurarie and 
Dr. Botus undertook in South Africa the elaboration of Ericacee. 
Meanwhile, with the aid of contributors whom I was able to enlist 
at home, a commencement was made with the present volume, and 
the first part was published as long ago as 1901. Unhappily the 
death of Professor GUTHRIE in 1899 and the failing health of 
Dr. Boxus left their contribution unfinished, and it had to be 
continued and completed at Kew. It became impracticable to 
make any further progress with Volume V. till the two sections of 
the preceding one had been disposed of. 
“Tn a vast undertaking like the present, the progress of which 
is necessarily protracted, it is the inevitable but melancholy task of 
the Editor to record the loss from time to time of those whose 
generous assistance and co-operation have made its ultimate 
accomplishment possible. That it should be so must be his justifi- 
cation for the somewhat erratic mode of publication which he has 
felt obliged to adopt. Particular orders have been as far as possible 
entrusted to those who had made them a special stady. 
waited to invoke their aid in following a continnous sequence, that 
aid would in at least two cases have been unavailable and with 
difficulty replaced. 
“CHarRLes Baron CiarKke, M.A., F.R.S., died 25th August, 
1906; he elaborated Commelinacee (1897), Cyperacee (1898), and 
Acanthacee (1891) in the present volume. (Obituary’ notice and 
bibliography, Kew Bulletin, 1906, pp. 271-281.) MaxWELL 
Tytpen Masters, M.D., F.R.S., died 30th May, 1907; he 
