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DE GENERE MALPIGHIA. 368 
in contents on p. ix. These he descriptions are not arranged in 
families and eee but one genus follows another on no very 
evident plan. The index, however, serves to show where these 
genera,—if a generic n name happens to be known,—are to be found. 
Although a very large number of fungi are described in this book, 
some species well known to gardeners find no place, such as those 
most destructive to orchids, as T'richobasis Lynchii, Tilmadoche 
curvipes, Cladosporium orchidearum, and several others rchids, 
indeed, do not occur in the list of host plants, although Nectria 
vande is described. Gardeners will no doubt expect to find Palm, 
the We have, n 
is sbvvieniaty an excellent book, sekspilod and illustrated with great 
labour and care. Additions may be made to a second edition. As 
eae plant disease is almost Sertail to be found within its covers. 
Wo. & 
De Genere Malpighia. By ite — Niepenzv. Brunsberg, 1899. 
9.* 
Pror. NrepENzu has — up ah monograph of Bunchosia vd 
the present work on Malpighia. M. Adrien de Jussieu, fifty yea 
ago, when he monographed Malpighiacea had twenty apnaee: Prof. 
Niedenzu carefull aera twenty-four; but the seemingly 
small numerical increase may be accounted for by the fact that a 
certain number of plants considered by the earlier seca as 
worthy of specific rank are now relegated to a pete rdinate grade, 
and placed either as varieties or Fiens. Prof. Niedenzu mnt 3 two 
character in the former being that the styles are subequal o gg 
slightly unequal, while in the latter the posterior style 
manifestly longer and thicker than the anter 
The sections in the first subgenus are Prilothri iv and Paliur: ser 
the former including M. mexicana Juss. and M. tomentosa Pay. 
latter, M. glabra L., M. a Juss., M. Galeottiana Juss., or 
M. heterophylla Griseb. The sections in the subgenus Didymostylis 
are Homoiostema and Digigentanin, based, as the pier igg imply, on 
the + snipes or disparity in structure of the sta 
We congratulate the author on the careful ‘and painstaking 
manner in which he has performed his work from the material a 
his command; but we can hardly consider this as a Goat sere 
of the genus. As we said when noticing his monograph of Bun- 
chosia,+ if he had been able to visit this country he would have 
Prefixed to Index Lectionum in i tyes esto Hosiano Brunsbergensi, per 
wstatem, a die xv Aprilis, anni mpcocic instituendarum 
+ Journ, Bot. 1898, p. 356, 
