299 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The native name is followed by the scientific, given on the authority 
of the author quoted, whose work is referred to, and this not only 
enables the person eonsulting the Index to confirm the reference, but 
gives him also a key to works where he will obtain information re- 
garding the objects he is investigating. Our experience is that native 
names, when correctly ascertained, are very constant in their value. 
Practieally, then, this Index will be of value to botanists dealing with 
the pure science, and much more to those investigating the history 
of plants applied by the Eastern nations to economical or officinal 
purposes. It would be a valuable companion volume if Dr. Watson 
were to prepare, on the plan suggested in the work above referred to, 
a scientific list of the plants, with their native names, in the various 
regions where these have been recorded. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The Committee of the International Horticultural Exhibition having offered 
for the use of the Fellows of the Society and other horticultural students,— 
the Council agreed to accept the offer, and appointed three trustees; and the 
International Committee appointed Dr. Hogg, Dr. Maxwell Masters, anc 
Thomas Moore, Esq., to represent them ; and the six having agreed, nomi- 
nated Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Bart., M.P., as the seventh, and the trust-deed 
has this dy (May 5, - been signed. Tho ‘iret purchase made by the 
trustees is Dr. Lindley’s Botanical and Horticultural Library, at a cost of £600, 
and steps are ens taken m make the library available. 
Antigonon leptopus, a very singular Polygonea, from the north-west coast 
of tropical America, has been introduced by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, and is held 
to ins one of the most beautiful climbers in existence, the natives of Mexico and 
terming it osa de Mayito and Rosa de Montana, in allusion to its 
beautiful rose-coloured flowers 
e very useful pu bliestiot, ‘Annales Botanices Systematicæ, has again 
appeared, the first fasciculus of the seventh volume, by Carl Mueller, of Berlin, 
having just been issued. It is to contain the additions to botanical literature 
which have accumulated from 1856 to 1866. The present fasciculus of 160 
