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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éde. 
Mr. H.N. Ridley contributes to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 
Society (Straits Branch, No. 32) an important paper on ‘ The Sci- 
taminew of the Malay Peninsula.’’ Two new genera are established— 
Camptandra (which includes Kaempferia parvula Baker) and Cona- 
omum. 
east Celebes. Museum officials are frequently applied to nowadays 
for information which may be helpful in the solution of “ prize 
puzzles,” and a correspondent suggests that Mr. Massee may have 
been selected by the Kew authorities to supply such information. 
The suggestion is based on the fact that he is described in this number 
of the Bulletin (p. 90) as « Principal Assistant for Cryptograms,”’ 
but we imagine the printer must be held responsible for this 
Tue Tenth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanic Garden is devoted 
to an enumeration of the Grasses in the Bernhardi Herbarium, a 
large number of which represent the species described by Presl in 
fieliquie Henkeanne. The paper is illustrated by 54 plates. A 
memoir of Edward Lewis Sturtevant (1842-1898), with portrait, a 
paper by Dr. H. yon Schrenk on ‘a Sclerotioid Disease of Beech- 
roots,” and a general index to the ten volumes, make up the remainder 
of the book. 
We are glad to record the publication of another instalment 
(vol. vii. part 8) of the Flora Capensis, in which Dr. Stapf continues 
his enumeration of the Graminec. 
Tue seventh volume (dated Aug. 5th) of the Memoirs of the 
Torrey Botanical Club is devoted to a monograph of the Hepatice 
and Anthocerotes of California, by Mr. Marshall Avery Howe. 
is illustrated by 85 plates. 
We have received the second part of Natal Plants, by Messrs. 
.M d and M. J. Evans, the first instalment of which was 
noticed in last year’s Journal p. 827). The remarks there given 
and we would suggest that in every case the reference to the place 
of publication should follow the name of the species. We notice 
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mconvenient name * Combretum (Poivrea bracteosa Hochst.) ;”” but in 
Such a case convenience and custom suggest that they should form 
