120 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
given anywhere in the matter introductory to the volume that 
the date on the titlepage is inc cp rom and there is thus danger 
sign ong da f 
ingenuity often manifested in laying traps for future bibliographers 
is as remarkable as it is regrettable. 
for it, and it is fortunate that so competent a successor as Mr. 
Bennett has been available for the completion of the work: the 
eleven additional Pes illustrating this section have been drawn 
by Miss Matilda Sm 
Untit one of — Flo orence L. Barclay’s heroes went there 
and slept under it (with serious results), the Upas tree was not 
known from the African Continent; and until Mr. Kefford went 
to Vauna Levu, orchids were unknown in Fij iji. This we state on 
the authority of Mr. Kefford himself, whine adventures in search 
of orchids, crowned with success by the discovery of the appro- 
priately named Corona Keffordi, are narrated by Mr. Ralph Stock 
in the Windsor J 
5 
“egced on by a promise of one thousand pou nd a new 
meat {8 at _ sameagite successful in depriving oe Kefford of 
his crown— Mr. the proper 
sollagtor’ S fnetinct he told his rival’s employer that * “if [he] found 
an unknown species, it would be a ph ysical impossibility for [him] 
to part with it for fifty thousand”; which seems to suggest that 
he intended to swallow the plant and to defy the strongest emetic. 
“TI caught sight of something white above my head among the 
branches of a ¢z tree: it was the Corona Keffordi”’ . . . ‘a delicate 
waxen thing drooping from a stalk embedded in the ti tree bark.” 
The plant was at once named by the collector after himself, the 
“crown formation” indicating that it was previously unknown— 
and apparently ei e, for ‘one might search those swamps for a 
year and not this one’s duplicate — tak even then it would 
not be the Covaaa Keffordi.” The other man congratulated him- 
self “upon a variety of the Odontoglossum, but the lip is pink 
instead of chocolate-coloured,” so it would seem that orchids are 
s quest. We fear that, until a fuller description is published, 
shen name will have to be regarded as a nomen nudum, bu ee we shall 
be os to print a fuller — of the plant when it reaches the 
Herbarium. anwhile it must be regarded as an 
interesting addition to ‘ha not inconsiderable flora of fiction, in 
which Lord Beaconsfield’s Stephanopolis and Rose of Jericho— 
the ae if we recollect aright, carried in a Roman ee eA 
published in Lothair will “find a place beside some of Mr. H. G. 
Wells’s creations. 
