3832 ON CRATEROSTIGMA PUMILUM. 
appeared, these lists might be printed in the ‘‘additional series,” or 
we should be glad to afford them a place in the pages of this Journal. 
We cannot help regretting that Mr. B. D. Jackson should have 
expended so much time and trouble upon a Catalogue which can- 
not be considered either as up to the standard we expect in such 
publications, or as adequately representing the bibliographical 
knowledge which he undoubtedly possesses. 
On Craterostigma pumilum Hochst., a rare plant from Somali-land. 
H. Mars arD, D.Se., F.R.S., and Miss HE. Date. 
(Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. v. part 10; ‘‘ April’? [May] 1899.) 
understand them, they are true, though not new. The implied 
doubt as to the geographical distribution of the plani—‘it comes 
from Abyssinia or Somali-land’’—might have been omitted. 
ed. In 
any case, indeed, it is not quite easy to know what is meant by the 
‘‘rare’’ as the authors suppose. It is, we think, to be re- 
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should not have been consulted; had this been done, the authors 
would have been enabled, as has been shown, to render their account 
of the distribution of C. pumilum more complete, 
