Note to Plates 2668-2670. 
Since the roag of the last part of the Icones Plantarum, the — de 
la Société Botanique de It con- 
00, has come 
& France, part 1, Mar 9 ) 
tains an aeicie | i ie late A. Franchet entitled : ‘ Les Sc tia y em la Chine 
dans l’herbier du Muséum de Paris.’ Under Plate 2668 of this it is mentioned 
that the writer’s last co mmunication from Mr. A. nao aie contained some 
queries concerning the affinities of Ke laa and Calorhabdos. This was dated 
February 4, and he died on February 15, no reply having been sent to him in the 
meantime. Franchet ha ge aan the paper on “ogee uary 12, and it has 
been published as originally drawn up. In this paper he reduces ‘Serofella to 
Calorhabdos (p. 19), a: as I think, setaaecaaly. He describes a piers e Calorhabdos— 
C. sutchuenensis - ust be ve ar tera, de- 
serib argestt, which is a Botryoplewron and very near B. stenostachyum, 
Hemsl, Although oe retains the ge as left entham ’s Gene 
Plantarum, he divides the penta into two sections, which he names Acrostachys 
Plagiostachy ad jsnsees ts that onld be better to limit Calorhabdos to 
those species having a inal inflore ; so we independently arrived at the 
cence; s 
Same conclusion except rs as Scrofella i is concerned.—W. Borrina HeMsuey. 
