NOTE 
Justification for the issue of the present part of ‘‘ Materials 
for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula”’ lies partly in the fact 
that the old series of the Journal of the Society requires to be 
closed. Its closure has been held up for a number of years on 
account of the fact that the materials in type did not, as they 
stood, bring the work to an appropriate end. 
Strictly speaking, the present issue under the title 
“Materials”? involves a misnomer, for not long after these 
materials went to the press the Flora of the Malay Peninsula, 
itself, by Ridley, appeared, comprising the substance of the 
materials already published in this Journal and extending to 
what had not been included here. 
Manuscript on the Euphorbiacez, extending to several 
hundred pages more than are given here, was also awaiting 
publication when the Flora appeared. Publication of this 
cannot now be justified ; but the addition of an index to all the 
materials, including the species of the present six genera of the 
Euphorbiacez, will appropriately close the work and the series. 
The elaborate precision of Col. Gage’s key to the genera 
of Euphorbiacee here given will be apparent. This alone 
would justify the issue of what is already in type, and with the 
index allows of a closure which is overdue. 
UPENDRANATH BRAHMACHARI, 
Actg. General Secretary, 
Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
CALCUTTA : 
1, Park STREET, 
August, 1936. 
