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BOTANICAL NEWS. 287 
An enumeration of the Oriental Labiate with description of the 
new species, and a long geographico-botanical introduction by Bunge 
has been three in the po res de Acad. imp. des Sc. de St. 
Pétersbourg (sér. 8, tom. x 1). 
e understand that a tebe of Mauritius and the Seychelle 
Islands is likely soon to be put in hand as one of the colonial 
ei s issued from Kew. Mr. Baker will undertake the editor- 
MWe read in the pignte set that, Mr. W. B. He msley is 
about to undertake otanical monographs with the 
special cobiet of deteeninis rahe naming plants cultivated in 
ill commence with the Dusacee, Marantacee and 
Zingiboracee. 
on the 8. Coast of New England in 1871 and 1872,” contains 
arlow 
Dr. Gerard Rohlf’s expedition into the bah vin part of the 
Western Egyptian or Lybian desert has been very successfully carried 
through. The traveller was accompanied by Profs. Jordan and 
Zittel, and Dr. Ascherson, of Berlin, as botanist. They left Siout on 
17th December last, and reached the oasis of Farafrah on 29th, which 
Water to last all that period. The return journey was m e 
Oasis Parva and back to the Farafrah and Dakhel oases. The whole 
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shy "eta Some account of the vegetation of this extensive tract 
und in a letter ae Dr. Ascherson, printed in the “‘ 
Mok Shits ”? for Augu 
rane e hear that Mr. I. B. “Balfour, son of the Professor of Botany at 
C, po Faune and Flore Maderw et Portus Sancti” in the 
“™nbridge Philosophical Transactions. Two years after, he pre 
