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Mrs. Maclagan, Queen’s Gate Place, S.W.—Fruit and model of 
fruit of Stephanotis floribunda, The fruit was grown in the stove at 
the Palace, Bishopthorpe, in 1897, and was preserved by the late 
Archbishop Maclagan. 
Messrs. R. Webb & Sons, Brush Manufacturers, Chesham.—A 
series of specimens to illustrate the various stages in the manu- 
facture of brushes, 
Messrs. Stafford Allen & Sons, Long Melford, Suffolk.—Dried 
roots of Atropa Belladonna, Valeriana officinalis and Taraxacum 
officinale, 2 
Captain H. Rogers, R.N., Hartley, Plymouth.—Four sections of 
the wood of Pinus insignis. 
J. M. H. 
Neolitsea, Merrill._In 1831 Nees in Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae 
Rariores, vol. ii. p. 64, based on Litsea zeylanica, C. & Fr. Nees, 
ew closely allied forms, a distinct Lauraceous genus, 
Tetradenia, Nees. In 1880 Bentham and Hooker, in the Genera 
Plantarum, vol. ili, p. 161, once more referred Tetradenia, Nees, to 
Litsea, Lamk., treating the group of species which it includes as a 
distinct section. Having regard to the circumstance that in 1830 
(Bot. Reg. sub t. 1300) Mr. Bentham had already established on a 
Labiate from Madagascar the valid genus Tetradenia, Benth., the 
authors of the Genera Plantarum substituted the name Neolitsea, in 
a sectional sense, for the name Tetradenia, Nees. In dealing with 
this section in the Flora of British India, vol. v. (1886), pp. 155 
and 178, Sir J. D. Hooker remarked that this section ought 
probably to be restored as the genus Tetradenia, Nees, and this 
denia mollissima and T. kedahensis, noted above, must be altered to 
and should be cited as Neolitsea mollissima, Gamble, and Neolitsea 
heduhensis, Gamble, respectively. 
J: 8.G. 
Botanical Magazine for March—The plants figured are Rhodo- 
dendron sutchuenense,- Franch. (t, 8362); Primula Mazximowiezii, 
Regel (t. 8363) ; Meconopsis simplicifolia, Walp. (t. 8364) ; Clematis 
montana, Bach., var, Wilsonii, Sprague (t. 8365) and Cirrhopetalum 
longissimum, Ridl. (t. 8366), = 
