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plants collected. In the summary of botanical results Mr. Ball 
showed that the proportion of seers Leguminosae, and ital 
is unusually large; whereas Graminee and Ranunculacee are excep- 
tionally small. Of Rosacee there a are 16, of Sazifragee 5, of Primu- 
lacee 7, of Gen tianee 8, of Dyson diet only 28 eon ge thus 
ri ons. 
According to Mr. Ball’s ccaniyange it ee seem as if five temperate 
floras mre in the territory in question, to wit:—(1) Mediter- 
ranean in general; (2) Peninsular (Spain snd Portugal) ; a Desert ; 
(4) African aio flora ; (5) Macaronesian ; to which he thinks 
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tutal number of Phanerogamous plants now described or given 
in a list in his paper are 1618 species, and among these many 
novelties, # as might be anticipated.—‘‘On the Liliaceae, Lridacea, 
i idacea, and Hemodoracee of Dr. Welwitsch’s Angolan 
Herbarium,” by J. G. Baker. By the courtesy of the executors, 
= author had been enabled to examine these Orders, and to describe 
Cape Genera already known, but there are three ne es 
here described. In the running survey of his paper the author 
Dasystachys campanula colubrina, Xerophyta capillaris, and 
~~ odoratissima as of considerable interest in seve spec 
e: Tri arked that though Angola is used to ean the 
interesting semi-temperate flora, anal 8 Abyssinia, 
abounding in novelties, and abundantly different to the pure c 
flora of Angola proper.—Mr. Hiern questioned whether the Albuca 
angolensis of Welwitsch’s “ Apontamentos,” a ies from Golungo 
alto, in Angola proper, was certainly the same as — from Huilla 
Me Mr. Baker had escribed under the same name in the “ Refu- 
eum.”—‘‘ Contributions to the Lichen pedilica of New 
m Botani 
Zealand, - ie Charles Knight, Esq., F.L. Aiadinae Central of New 
Mi e Rev. re, 
Gardner Smith and Mr. Alexander Young Stewart were elected. 
Fellows of the Society.— There was exhibited by the Superintendent 
of the Apothecaries’ Hall a sample of a bark forwarded from New 
Zealand, and said to possess powerful medicinal p roperties. To 
what species it belongs is doubtful, though referred with probability 
toa — of Leptospermum. The rough —— ~~ shows wit to 
anting in any alkaloid principle, but to ¢ tannin 
svenduate of musienods substances, This ia is being sue farted 
* Mr, Ball has published descriptions of the more interesting of these in the. : 
volumes of this Journal for 1873 and 1875. 
