BihUoijraphtcal Notice. .■»99 



Long. fVoin liojul to ii|H'x of elytra 20 liiiPs; max. lat. 

 12 lines. 



//(//'. liritisli East Africa. 



Allied to Ciolianthus Foniassinii, Westw., frtmi which it 

 differs by the much more produced head, the bridge-like horn, 

 with its broad and triangular base, the longer and more 

 attenuated seutellum, and the three sj)ines to the lateral 

 margin of the anterior femora, <tc. 



lUlUJOGKAPHlCAL NOTICE. 



The Students Flora of Xew Zcdland and the outh/hif/ Islands. Bv 

 Thomas Kikk, F.L.S. Wellington, N.Z. : J. Mackay, (jrovern- 

 inent Printer. 189U. Super Koyal 8vo, pp. vi, 408. 



We have in this fragment the last work on which the late Pro- 

 fessor Kirk was engaged at the time of his lamented death in March 

 1898, being the whole of the material he had put into the liands 

 of the printer. It is well known that he had been occupied on an 

 account of the flora of his adopted country for many years, and no 

 better man could have undertaken it. The hope is expressed in the 

 Introduction that the completion may be entrusted to other hands, 

 and if the authors notes are sufticieiilly brought together it may be 

 accomplislied by his son. 



The Government ])rinters have done their part well, sundry small 

 typographical errors being no doubt due to the fact that the author 

 could not correct the i)roof himself. Besides the Errata set out on 

 p. 384 (wliich may be considered as corrected), the most important 

 error noted by us in glancing through the volume is ou page 7'J, 

 where the reference to Gai/ia LtfciUii, " J, E. Baker . . . .'57, " should 

 read " E, G. Baker . . . 137," while on page 379, in the sixth line, 

 the tirst two letters have dropj)ed out from DICOTYLEDONS. Again, 

 under the genera AzoreUa and Jleliehrysum there are references 

 giveu which are entirely misleading as they stand ; it is also unfor- 

 tunate, too, that the author should have preferred to cite Allan 

 Cunningham's paper by its title as " Priccursores," instead of referring 

 to its proper place in the ' Annals of Natural History,' ser. 1, iv. 

 (184U), where the ])age should be cited instead of the running 

 number of tlio plants ; this could have been sui)pliod from the 

 ' Index Kewensis,' which the author has employed elsewhere. 



Turning to the scientific points of interest in the volume, we note 

 that a new genus, I/uttonidla, is established for four species of 

 Cannirhaella, on account of the pods being indehiscent, the seeds 

 uot exceeding three in number, and the radicle conduplicate. 

 Furthermore, the genus I/oheria is retained for the original species, 

 y/. iiojynlnea^ A. Cuun. ; Shawia paniciduta, Forst.,i8 re-established, 



