92, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Planie Davidiane—this, like the rest of his papers, showed a 
considerable acquaintance both with plants and literature, and 
In 
four thousand specimens, most y of Chinese plants, among which 
were many from Pekin, given to him by Bretschneider (whose 
eldest sister; from W.J. Clarke, who collected near Shanghai, and 
from W. R. Carles, with whom Forbes visited Che Kiang in 1881. 
Duplicates of his plants were presented by Forbes to Peters- 
burg and to Kew; a list of the novelties collected by him is given 
by Bretschneider (op. cit. 724). 
JAMES BRITTEN. 
SHORT NOTES. 
RCHIS MACULATA var. O’ Ketty1.—Under this name Mr. Druce 
from Ballyvaughan, co. lare, which he names after its dis- 
. B. O'Kelly 
wers, which are also 
cylindric blunt spike, and by the shape of the flowers. From the 
variety precox of OQ, (0. ericetorum Li 
broad labellum in which the middle division is 
shorter than the lateral, and with a peculiarly conical head, is the 
