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there are nuts, a character which some botanists pimiaht regard 
rather as subgeneric than generic in value. note that Dichro- 
mena is still kept distinct from Fynchospora, with the remark ‘ forsan 
in Rynchospora potius mergendum”’; it . difficult to see on what 
grounds the two can be gen erically separated. 
Apropos of — a point of noaesiaike arises: the 
large number of species described under Rhynchospora, as Willdenow 
spelt it, are ahr as synonyms, so that, except for a = a 
names of Vahl, most of the species are cited as of Britto 
Clarke; Ryn chos ospora pseudo-lanata ©. B. Clarke is, Eawaeee. an 
unnecessary change for R. filiformis Vahl. We note an opportunity 
for further alterations, which Otto Kuntze _ lero the oldest 
name for the genus being Triodon L. C. ee Rynchospora 
tenerrima C. B. Clarke), there is a chance ries some one to run out a 
hundred or so of new names, himself the authority. An additional 
advantage is that a later genus of Rubiacee will then be squashed. 
Mr. Clarke has kindly drawn our attention to a point of much 
greater interest, which is strongly marked in Cyperacee—namely, 
the connection between the North Tropical Areciean and the West 
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and in West Tropical Africa :—Kyllinga pve Vahl, K. hago 
viana Lam., Pycreus propinguus Nees, Juncellus alopecuroides C. B 
Clarke, Cyperus nudicaulis Poir., C. sphacelatus Rottb., Mariscus 
umbellatus Vahl, Fimbristylis ewilis R. & S., F. obtusifolia Kunth, 
Scirpus spadiceus Boeck., Rynchospora cyperoides Britton. Several 
of these have been discovered, for the first time in the West gray 
by Pare saan in Martinique. It would be interesting to o know Mr. 
Clarke’s views as to the so olution of this puzzle in geographical 
distribution. There seems little doubt that the intercourse in con- 
nection with slave-traffic is insufficient to account for all the cases, 
and that the former sae of some other facility for direct 
os aT has to be considered. A SR 
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der F Coffea und Kibara.’ . W. Neger, ‘ Weiteres uber 
Ph latins, ’—(Nos. 23, 24). T. Aakbeny, ‘Uber die Proteinstotfe 
der Sam 
Bot. pee aa May). — B. M. Davis, ‘ nampa of Albugo 
candida’ (1 eat i AH; Hasselbring, ‘ Development . Trichurus 
spiralis and Stysanus Stemonites’ (2 pl.). — beh PY. Sm as ne 
phylls and soerstinis of Isoetes’ (concl.). — E. B. json ee Soja 
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