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A recent valuable accession to the palm collection consists of 
six large plants, eat -five to thirty feet tall, the gift of Mrs. 
F. J. Shepard, who n years past presented many other 
valuable plants to the eee This recent accession embrace 
five species, representing as many genera. One of these is Cocos 
umosa, a native of Brazil. Then there are two specimens of 
Dictyosperma album, known also as Areca alba, which finds its 
home in the Mascarene Islands. A good plant of Roystonea 
regia isa third species. This is the royal palm, sometimes known 
as Oreodoxa regia, growing in southern peninsular Florida and 
the keys, and also in the West Indies and Central America. It 
is one of the most stately of palms, and odd in its curious swollen 
trunk. The two most important elements of this gift, as they 
represent species and genera not hitherto in the Garden collec- 
tions, are Clinostigma Mooreanum, known also as Kentia Moore- 
ana, an Australian palm; and Kentiopsis biti sometimes 
under the name of Kentia Lindeni, from New Caledonia. 
Panes of the size presented by Mrs. Shepard ee years of 
growth and are correspondingly valuable. 
Mi setae! for June.—The total precipitation for the month 
only 0.63 inch. Maximum temperatures for each week 
were as follows: 85° on the 7th, 94° on the 14th, 96° on the 16th 
and 89° on the 29th. The minimum temperatures were 47° on 
the 2d, 46° on the oth, 50° on the 19th, and 56° on the 29th. 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
roo specimens ‘Fungi Columbiana’ century 40. (Distributed by Elam 
Bartholomew.) 
roo specimens ‘North American Uredinales’’ century 81. (Distributed by 
Elam Bartholomew. 
I specim Lepanthes obtusipetala from aa (By exchange with the 
en of 
Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, West Indies.) 
Io specimens of fungi from ai) Rico. (By exchange with Professor F. L. 
ns. 
4 specimens of Lepidopilum from Africa. (By exchange with the Natural 
History Museum, Paris.) 
