276 REPORT ON THE ROYAL GARDENS AT KEW. 
stone's expedition, Plants and Drawings; Dr. Kirk and Dr. Meller. 
+3. Madagascar; Dr. Meller, when accompanying the Embassy to 
King Radama.—4. Algeria; M: Cosson, of Paris.—5; Abyssinia; M. 
Franqueville.—6. Aden and Soumali Country, drug and balsam-yield- 
ing Plants; Captain Playfair.—7. Upper Nile and Soudan; Consul 
Petherick.— 8. Niger River; Dr. Bakie.—9. Loanda and Benguela; 
Dr. Welwitsch, including the Welwitschia; the most remarkable plant 
of modern times, of which specimens arrived in the same year from Dr. 
Welwitsch and Mr. Monteiro from Cape Negro, and from Mr. Baines, 
and Mr. Andersson from Waalvisch Bay, Damara Land.—10. Punjaub ; 
Dr. Aitchieson.—11. N.W. Himalaya; Dr. Stuart.—Moulmeine; 
Rev. W. Parish.—12. Ceylon; G. H. K. Thwaites.—13. Australia; 
Dr. Mueller, Sir Stuart Donaldson, Mr. Hill, Mr. Moore, etc.—14. 
New Zealand; the late Dr. Sinelair, Dr. Haast, Mr. Travers, Dr. L. 
Lindsay.—15. Sandwich Islands; Dr. Hillebrand.—10. New Cale- 
donia; Mr. Le Normand.—17. Fiji Islands; Mr. Storck.—18. Bri- 
tish Columbia; Dr. Lyall.—19. Dominica; Dr. Imray.—20. Cuba; 
M. De Franqueville.—21. Trinidad; Mr. Crüger.—22. Panama; Mr. 
Sutton Hayes, Also various collections from the Universities, Bota- 
nical Gardens, etc., of St. Petersburg, Upsala, the Smithsonian Insti- 
tute, ete. etc. 
The books published in this Herbarium during the past year have 
cen :— 
1. The * Genera Plantarum,’ Part I., by G. Bentham and the Assis- 
tant Director. 
2. The * Botanical Magazine,’ and 
3. The ‘ Species Filicum,’ by the Director. ee 
4. A Memoir on Welwitschia, by the Assistant Director, with 14 
plates, the expense of transferring which to stone was pë 
from the grant annually placed at the disposal of the Royal 
Society for the Promotion of Science. z 
Various botanical papers on the collections received, have been con- 
tributed to the Linnean Society by Mr. Bentham, by the Assistant 
Director, and Professor Oliver, the Librarian, The new pu lications 
commenced are, a Flora of all the Australian Colonies by Mr. Bentham, 
and a Manual of New Zealand Botany by the Assistant Director, both 
to be published by the Government of the respective Colonies. The 
distribution of duplicate named specimens has been very large, amount- 
