190 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dec. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 2nd, the paper 
of the evening was entitled ‘‘ A Contribution to our Knowledge of 
the Flora of Gazaland.” The collections which formed the subject 
of the paper were made by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton chiefly in the 
ber of detached 
masses of highland separated by evercralleys which ultimately 
ite to form the Buzi, an important river running eastwards 
through the lower-lying Steer territory to enter the Indian 
Ocean near Beira. Mr. Swynnerton has supplied an interesting 
account of the Gey geographical character of the district. There 
is evidence that it was once covered with dense forest, which has, 
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rugged range reaching a height of 8000 ft., and the Chirinda and 
Chipete forest tr — adjoining each other, in the south. 
Chirinda is described as a virgin forest of enormous and mostly 
evergreen Arig: covering about twelve thousand acres of the 
higher portions of the hill. Its larger trees range from 80 to 170 ft. 
in height, and the undergrowth, with mosses, ferns, epiphytes, and 
lianas, is of a thoroughly opis. character. The collection ro 
proved rich in novelties, especially among the gamopetalous orders 
of Dicotyledons, including a new genus of Asclepiadacce, Swynner- 
tonia. ‘There are also a large number of Rubiacee new to science, 
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olygala, and others. A new Leucospermwm forms the first record 
ican genus. 
calyz is a Maeeey genus not Kitherto known from "Tropical 
Afri The introduction was read by Dr. Rendle, with a review 
of the new Monocotyledons; Mr. E. G. Baker and Mr. 8. Moore 
particularizing the plants which had been investigated by them. 
Wr have received the second number of the “ Occasional 
e”’ of the Milford-on-Sea Record Society, which is entirely 
