116 REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT OF 
CONDURANGO, (pp. 65, 137).—M. Triana, in a paper on this alleged 
remedy for cancer presented to the Académie des Sciences on March 25th, 
specimens at the Ecuador consulate, has found reason to consider it a 
new species, which he thus defines :— G. Condurango, ramulis sulcatis, 
,petiolis pedunculisque pube grisea indutis, foliis longiuscule petiolatis 
cordatis sinu lato cuspidatis supra puberulis subtus cinereo tomentosis 
mollibus a basi 5-nerviis, folliculis ovato-oblongis ventricosis 4-alatis 
glabris. 
Reports. 
OFFICIAL REPORT FOR 1871 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
BOTANY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By WinLiAM Carrutugrs, F.R.S. 
The additions that have been made to the General Herbarium during 
for the arranged General Herbarium by more than a third its previous 
dimensions. This necessitated the redistribution of the Herbarium itself 
throughout the whole series of cabinets Space has been in this way 
ure 
gress. 
n the later months of the year the Exhibition Rooms were closed to 
the public, for the purpose of having them cleaned and painted. Advantage 
take he necessa ion of the 
Balanophoree, Rafflesiacee 
on Oak and other trees, presented by the Rev. Robert Blight: many 0 
these specimens are prepared so as to show the relation of this parasite = 
the supporting plants. series of microscopic preparations of fi 
plants, selected partly from the collection bequeathed by Robert Beon 
