192 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
notice that Sir Joseph — to keep the much disputed Panicum 
sanguinale L. in the genus Paspalum, following Lamarck, and his 
own opinion as sented: in the Indian Flora. 
There is a fair sprinkling of endemic species of grasses, the 
proportion in several well-worked genera being very remarkable. 
—are endemic. riindestts is a very critical genus, ae it 
is runt ‘difficult to delimit its species. Sir Joseph remarks that 
A. brasiliensis Raddi, which iu the Flora of British India (vii. 73) was 
assigned to Ceylon, has not yet been found in the island, some 
therefore, as common to both Old and New Worlds. From an 
examination of Raddi’s specimen at the British pleco we are 
inclined to think that the Asiatic specimens are not conspecific 
with the South American, the spikes of which have a ‘ifforent look 
and conspicuously smaller spikelets. Dimeria is another genus 
remarkable for its pao snd seer a in theisland. Of the seven 
species found, four a mic, and a fifth is represented by two 
endemic varieties. Gar Am is @ ‘still more striking instance, six 
out of seven per being found only in Ceylon. To one, G. te- 
torum Hook. f., Sir Joseph appends the query, ‘ Also in China?” 
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founded on a grass collected in Hongkong by Wright, which we 
ogee to only a muticous variety of the Southern Chinese 
G. patu co Mun 
here are ri useful Appendices. The first includes a key to 
the rcs genera, and aberrant species, and the diagnostic 
characters of the orders in the sequence adopted by Dr. Trimen. 
The second is an account of the Forests and Waste Lands of Ceylon, 
by Mr. A. F. Brown, Conservator of Forests, while the third deals 
ge the rainfall, and is by Mr. F. Lewis, of the Forest Department. 
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arranged, in bibliographical form, under the names of those 
whom we owe its elaboration, beginning with Paul Hermann and 
ending with Dr. Trimen, of whom, as the writer remarks, the 
present work is his best memorial in the history of botany in Ceylon. 
The new fascicle of Natal Plants comprises five- gerne 
plates ees “depertptiona of as many native grasses of the t 
creer We envy @ man who can collect seas and have 
