822 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
temptation to him to give Banks and Solander the full — of 
their systematic work by publishing the names they had given to 
t 
their publication in this diets would have added to an already 
overburdened synonymy, and they have 7 wisely withheld. 
Solander’s descriptions, however, are printed. They are exact and 
elaborate, and maintain Solander’s reputation, being also a valuable 
contribution, even after all these years, to systematic botany. 
Then follow the localities where the plants were found by the ex- 
eat beh from the Herbarium, and, when additional informa- 
s given, from the sketches made by Parkinson and others 
prin the te 
Mr. Bentham, in his great work on the Flora of Australia, has 
quoted many of the Banks and Solander plants, but he has omitted 
many more, and, what is remarkable in one who was so careful, he 
has credited many of these earlier pte to Robert rarabelae Mr. 
Britten has carefully indicated these omissions and e n his 
appended notes, and has thus seg to or first investigators the 
credit of their discoveries, of w one can acquire no adequate 
knowledge from the pages of the Australias Flora. Notes of a more 
a arr nt ago. Itis, po a ne ame ener that the editorial 
work is in the hands of Mr. Britten, wanes sympathy with and know- 
ledge of the labours of these earlier rnd ocd are both poratiast 
and exact. For financial reasons, the Trustees were unable 
accede to my sopeuet applications for the production of these eco 
and I congratulate my successor, Mr. urray, on having been so o for- 
tunate as to secure the publication of this important addition to the 
works issuing from his Department. 
Witu1am CarRvtHeErs. 
Conco Puants. 
Plante rhestaee iane Congolenses. Par E.. pz Wiunpeman et Ta. Duran. 
e 8vo, cloth, pp. xx, 49, tt. 23. Price 8 fr. Bruxelles : 
Seb 
Contributions a ‘e Flore du Congo. trey authors.] Vol. i. fasc. 3. 
Pp. 48. Bruxelles: Van de Weghe. 
Tue energy displayed by Belgian botanists in working out the 
botany of the Congo Free State is remarkable, but it may be hinted 
that their mode of publication is hardly the most convenient that 
could be adopted. At the present time, contributions to the subject 
are appearing in no fewer than three serial forms—for besides the 
‘Contributions’ named above, we have the ‘Illustrations,’ a separate 
publication, and the ‘ Matériaux ’ proceeding in the Bull. Soc. Ro Royale 
de Bot. Then in 1896 we had the « premiére partie ” of ‘ Etudes’ 
