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China he has been giving his whole time to this flora working with 

 Dr. E. D. Merrill at the Arnold Arboretum. 



According to Dr. Metcalf there is no book or group of books 

 by which the plants of southeastern China can be identified and 

 specimens have to be sent to specialists in Europe or America. This 

 work will be a landmark in Chinese botany. Bentham's Flora Hong- 

 kongenis was published in 1861 and is out of date and out of print, 

 besides covering only a small area. 



This fascicle covers fourteen families from Cycadaceae to 

 Fagaceae. There are keys to families, genera and species. There is 

 a description of each Fukien species and additional notes on those 

 found in adjacent provinces. No new species are described but at- 

 tention is called to many novelties which are to be described later. 



It is hoped that future parts can be published in China but the 

 war made it necessary to publish this fascicle here. This work is 

 another reminder of the many contributions of missionaries to Chi- 

 nese botany. Hundreds of species were first sent to western botan- 

 ists by friars, abbes and clergymen. In recent years good collections 

 were being built up in the Chinese colleges until the Japanese inter- 

 fered. 



My only criticism is that in the interest of economy the page 

 margins are very narrow and there is little room for additional 

 notes. I should think that one using it very much would have to 

 have it interleaved. r. r. Stewart 



Botanizing In Cuba 



Itineraires botaniques dans I'ile de Cuba. (Premiere serie). By Frere 

 Marie-Victorin, F.E.C., D.Sc, Directeur de I'lnstitut botanique de TUniver- 

 site de Montreal, and Frere Leon, Directeur du Laboratoire de botanique 

 du Colegio de la Salle, Havana. Contributions de I'lnstitut botanique de 

 rUniversite de Montreal, No. 41. Montreal, 1942. 



The writer of this review was companioned, on what was for 

 us a botanizing trip from Capetown through Egypt to Jerusalem 

 and farther, by the senior author of the above publication. It was 

 immediately apparent that Frere Marie-Victorin was an insatiable 

 diary keeper, an amiable weakness I thought ! Until a copy of this 

 diary, beautifully bound, was put into my hands some time after 

 our return to Montreal, I confess I did not realize that weakness 

 had become strength. Here before me was a volume almost fit for 

 publication, displaying a general picture of the vegetation and its 



