JOURNAL 
ASTATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Vous LOY: Lier ARY 
NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
GARDEN: 
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula No. 22.—By J. SyKzEs 
GAMBLE, C.I.E., M.A., F.R.S., late of the Indian Forest 
Department. 
Four volumes of this work, in 21 Parts, have already appeared, 
the first three containing the Thalamiflore, Disciflore and Calyciflore, 
by Sir George King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S.; the fourth containing 
Gamopetale by Sir George King and Mr. J.S. Gamble. The first two 
volumes were entirely Sir George King’s own work; in the third 
volume the large Family of Leguminose was done by Lt.-Col. D. Prain, 7 
at that time Curator of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, the genus Sonerila in Melastomacee by Dr. O. Stapf of Kew, 
and the rest by Sir G. King. In the fourth volume, Lt.-Col. Prain 
also did Convolvulacee, Solanacee, Scrophulariacee, Labiate and a few 
other Families; the Acanthacew were done by the late Mr. C. B. Clarke, 
P.R.S. ; and the Gesneraceew were compiled from Mr. H. N. Ridley’s 
work on that Family in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the 
Royal Asiatic Society. The other Families were done by either Sir 
G. King or Mr. Gamble. 
The section of the ‘ Materials ’ dealing with the Monocotyledons 
appeared in 1907-8. It was a separate publication entitled 
** Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula—Monocotyledons, by 
H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.R.S., ete., Director of Botanic Gardens, Singa- 
pore, 8.S. (Methodist Publishing House, Singapore),’’ and really 
forms the concluding portion of this work. 
This number is the first of Vol. V, which is intended to contain 
the Monochlamydez and the Gymnosperms; and, owing to the sad 
oeeurrence of the death of Sir George King which took place almost 
