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FARSISTAN EXPEDITION: 1910, 



J. F. Smith. No. 250 



Bot. Name. — IhcpJiorhia cheiradenia^ P. 



Vern, — DaracJii-i-sang . 



Loc,~ Pir^i-zan pass, hettveen Kasnm and Shiraz, rocky 



slopes. 



Da.te— 7-6-1910. Alt. 9500\ Coll.— J. F. Smith. 



mi 



lislied witL detachable pages, printed on one side only, wlien they 

 would form a valuable addition to the distribution labels and a 

 ereneral source of reference. 



VI, The Packing of Specimens. 



The specimens when dried must be protected ag^ainst dampness 

 and the attacks of insects and other animals. They should be made 

 up into parcels, placing a little poAvdered naphthaline inside, -and 

 ■wrapped up tightly in some w^aterproof material, such, for 

 instance, as Indian waxcloth. In this way the packets may 

 travel long distances even if no special boxes be available. Herb- 

 arium specimens which have been dried in *^ retainers^' i^iay be 

 left in them; but generally these will be required again and the 

 plants will therefore have to be transferred to other paper for 

 packing. For this purpose, ordinary newspaper or so-<?alled 

 **strawpaper" will be very serviceable- Should some of the 

 specimens be bulky and likely to press on others which are more 



delicate and brittle, stouter pieces of paper or pieces of cardboard 

 should be inserted in the bundle where necessary. 



XVIII.— ECHIUMS FROM THE ATLANTIC 



ISLANDS: L 



T. A, Sprague and J. Hutchinson. 



(With plate.) 



The Echlums of the Atlantic Islands have long attracted atten- 

 tion on account of their arborescent or fruticose habit, and some 

 have been in cultivation since 1777. They formed the subject 

 of a valuable posthumous memoir by Auguste de Coincy, pub- 

 lished in 1903** Among the characters considered important by 

 de Coincy were the nature of the annulus inside the base of the 

 corolla, the relative height of the insertion of the stamens, and 



Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, vol. iii. pp. 261-277, 488-499. 



