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Dr. Keisuké Ito, one of the Lote of modern Botany in ee and 
of his grandson, Dr. Tokut to. A short memoir of the life and 
works of Dr. K. Ito, bagathee: with a portrait, appeared in ie Annals 
of Botany in September, 1900, when he was already in his ninety- 
eighth year. He was a friend and pupil of P. F. von Siebold, whose 
devoted to philanthropic and scientific work, and he has been the 
recipient of m sonny honours, the last being selection by his country- 
men as one of ‘The twelve Heroes of mo apan.’ An earlier por- 
trait of K. Ito will be found in the Jour ing of Botany for 1887, witha 
brief ‘ History of Botany in Japan’ by Dr. T. Ito, who worked at Kew in 
1886-87, and enriched the library by the gift of a fine copy of the panini 
Zufu and several ate illustrated Japanese botanical works. mon 
the botanical works on which he is at present engaged is a Flora of 
the Luchu Archi a in conjunction with Dr. J. “Matsumura. 
In Balansa’s Tonkin collection (n. 4875) are fruits and sate of [toa 
orientalis, or of a closely allied species. The fruit ss however, in 
being nearly globose in shape.—W. Borrina Hemsie 
Fig. 1, a male flower with a tripartite ro, 2, a male flower with a — 
calyx ; 3, a longitudinal ection of the sa ; 4nd 5, stamens; 6, seeds with par 
of testa rem oved; 7, section of seed, the ‘ink removed, showing embryo, wal more 
or less por nate 
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