SHORT NOTICES.~ 123 
Tue last (Feb.) part of the ‘Icones Plantarum’ contains descrip- 
tions of the two new genera: Chlorocyathus Oliv. (Asclepiadee 
Periplocee) ; Brachylophon Oliv. (Malpighiacee Banisteriew). 
species of geht: (C. malayana) is described from the MSS. of 
the Re Scortechini, “who, after cline two years inde- 
fatigably . the exploration of the Flora of Perak, has within the 
last few months fallen a victim to its climate.’’ We hope to publish 
later a detailed notice of Father Scortechini, 1s well as two papers 
n Malayan Ferns which he had prepared for this Journal. 
Messrs. Outver & Boyp (Edinburgh) send us yet another series 
of added on Forestry which Dr. Croumbie Brown is issuing with 
“ Scho ols of Forestry in Germany,” and bears the marks of care 
and thoroughness which have Ecieipnished his preceding works on 
the subject. 
Tue recently published ‘ bask of Seeds of Hardy Herbaceous 
Annual and Perennial Plants grown in the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
rae (Sentionary Office, 6d.), demands a word of notice, if only to 
point out how completely and favourably it compares with the 
Extrt nate production which w e felt it our duty to criticise last 
ear. The present issue is an eatition? hand-list of garden seeds, 
well suited to the purposes for which it printed: an index of 
genera would, however, add to its usefulnes 
A new botanical Journal is being issued aa the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, under the title ‘ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information.’ It 
is to contain “ notes too detailed for the Annual Report on economic 
Wetotees and plants’ —and has been sea Lue so far, by the 
subjects treated of so far are fa ( rat stasis ” yssinica), Oil of Ben, 
Cape Boxwood, Industries at Mauritius, Fibre Plants, Sisal Hemp, 
and Mauritius Hemp. We hope that i in giving this information we 
have not infringed on the ‘‘ rights” w which are ‘‘ reserved.” As the 
ast rt iss : 
1884), the Bulletin may be regarded as a substitute, a a ver 
imperfect one, for the interesting yearly summaries of work at Kew. 
New wie BEAD — Cappy, ‘ Basen the sie with 
Li ee Longmans: 2 vols., pp. 847, 376: 2 maps: 
hh onion, Lo : Tilustrierte Flora von Nord- a Mittel- 
Deutschland’ ee sg —_ 8vo, pp. 511: 424 cuts: 5 mark). — 
NANQUETTE Bopre, ‘ Cours de Technologie sa 
(Paris, aioe ie Bit, pp. Xvi. 335).—P. Voein' rva- 
tiones analytice in Fungos ag garicinos [talix borealis’ ‘ean, 
tonelli: 8vo, pp. 56, tt. 3). 
