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This genus differs from Kaempferia by its polygamous flowers, 
and from all species of Kaempferia.—K. Ethelae, J. M. Wood, 
only excepted—by the ovaries being beneath the surface of the 
ground. A large number of the plants have been under observation 
during the flowering season, but very few perfect flowers have been 
noted, the female flowers largely outnumbering them, and in no case 
so far as we have been able to find, have seeds been produced, the 
ovaries rotting in the ground, though the flowers are visited by a 
minute “ Mucid ” fly, the name of which we have not been able to 
ascertain. The tube of the female flowers is very narrow and long, 
so that fertilisation can only be effected by a very minute insect, 
and the flowers only remain open for the first half of the day, being 
completely closed before the evening. The late Mr. W. T. Gerrard, 
who first collected this plant, noted that the flowers were unisexual 
(Botanical Magazine, t. 5994). The plant was afterwards named 
ter from Wood’s 544, and was by him and 
XXXVIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. H. N. Riptey.—We note with pleasure, in the list of 
Coronation Honours that Mr. H. N. Riptry, F.R.S., Director of 
the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, has been appointed a Companion 
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint 
George. 
Dr. Harry Bouus, the doyen of students and collectors of 
the rich flora of Cape Colony, died of heart failure at the age of 
r- Bolus accumulated a large fortune and has been a libe 
patron of botany and education. He founded the Bolus Professor- 
ship of Botany in the South African University at ae Town, of 
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By the terms of his will £48,000 will ultimately fall to the 
Guthrie. While at Graaff Reinet he took a great interest in 
succulent and bulbous plants and sent many of them alive to Kew. 
