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rudimentarii griseo-pubescentes. Spiculae ambitu valde  variae, 
lanceolatae vel oblongae vel ellipticae vel ovato-ellipticae, 7-15 mm, 
longae, 3-4°5 mm. latae, a latere valde compressae, 7-20-florae, 
stramineae, glaberrimae ; pedicelli brevissimi, scaberuli ; rhachilla 
glaberrima. Glumae scariosae, a latere visae oblique lanceolatae, 
acutae vel subacutae, inferior 2-3 mm., superior 3-4 mm. longa, 
mm. longae. Antherae oblongo-lineares 2 mm. (vel ultra ?) longae. 
Ovarium cum stylopodio 1°25 mm. longum; styli tenuissime capil- 
lares, 1°25 mm. longi; stigmata fere 2 mm. longa. Curyopsis 
stylopodio dempto 2 mm. longa, brunnea. Embryo 0°75 mm. longus. 
Mapae@ascar. East Coast, without precise locality, Boivin, 
2291; Ambongo, Pervillé, 545; Lac Manampetsa, Perrier de la 
Biathie. 
This stands out from Eragrostis mamly by its peculiar in- 
florescence which is very like that of an Eleusine or Dactyloctenium 
and probably also by the presence of a marked and persistent stylo- 
podium ; but as the numerous species of HKragrostis have not yet 
been carefully examined in that direction, the latter character may 
in the future turn out to be less reliable. Bojer’s Hleusine juncea 
(name only Hort. Maur. 370) from the mouth of the river Omlahi 
somewhat to the north of Lake Manampetsa, is very likely the 
grass described. It grows there according to him in arid places. 
XLIL--MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. J. J. Nock, 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, Curator of the 
Hakgala Gardens, Ceylon. 
* Dr. Harry Boxvs.—In the report of a Parliamentary Com- 
mission appointed in 1877 to enquire into the condition of the 
Botanic Garden at Cape Town, the evidence of Dr. Bolus fills 
several pages. The first question addressed to him—* You area 
Botanist ? "—elicited a reply which all who knew him will regard 
as characteristic. He said “I do not call myself a botanist, but I 
have studied botany in my leisure hours.” These words genuinely 
express the opinion he entertained of himself and his botanical 
work, not only in 1877 but to the day of his death. | He was one 
of the most unassuming of men and the last to realise that from 
* This appreciation of Dr. Bolus has been sent to the Director by Prof. 
H. H. W. Pearson, South African College, Cape Town, in kind compliance with 
a request made to |] 
