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Victoria and Albert Museum 
Ar the meeting of the Litany Society on Dee. 7th, Dr. Otto 
Stapf exhibited specimens of Malayan and African species of 
Kickvia Blume, to show the differences whieh exist between the 
size of the corolla, the insertion and general relation of the 
stamens to the tube of the corolla, the placentation, the structure 
of the fruit, and the general habit of the plants. As the name 
Kickxia would have to be retained for the Malayan species, he pro- 
posed the name Funtwmia for the African species, from “ funtum 
a vernacular name for F’. elastica. He further pointed out, by 
means of flowe werlng and fruiting specimens of I. africana Stapf 4 
Magazine of Natural History (iii. 561). In 1841, at which time he 
was living in London, he published in the Phytologist (i. 68) a list 
of Bristol plants, and he contributed several notes to the old series 
of that periodical. In 1845 he contributed a list of plants to J. C. 
Robertson’s Environs of Reading (see Flora of Berkshire, p. el xix). 
In 1846 he botanized in Kent, and embodied the results of his 
researches in a Flora Thanetensis, published in 1847 at Ramsgate, 
where he then resided. In 1848, while at Seend, in Wiltshire, 
Suting the years 1857-1874. This e BF sae 
ments in the journal of a local society ie not favourable to abeity; 
t a can hardly take ran 
importance, and it is practically ——_ seded by Mr. Preston’s 
or pea Plants a Wiltshire, published as a volume by the same 
society in 1888. Mr. Flower’s ei ieee been chiefly known to 
the more recent generations of botanists in connection with Draba 
-known locality, Pennard Castle, near Swansea. Various short 
sites from his pen, showing general rather than critical knowledge, 
will be found in several volumes of this Journal, the most interesting, 
os being that on the island of Steep Ho i ourn. Bot. 
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