BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 851 
ot Dee os number of the Icones Plantarum bears further testi- 
mony to Sir Joseph Hooker’s assiduity, making, as it does, the 
caste of the eight parts devoted to Indian Orchidaceae, the letter- 
press of which is entirely from his pen. An incidental note in the 
present instalment gives some notion of the labour which this has 
involved, and at the same time conveys a graceful ae to the 
artist. ‘The analyses of the orchids figured in these Icones, an 
those described in the pages of the Flora of British India, have been 
a work of great labour, executed _ by — at various periods 
between 1882 and 1892; and those of the Icones have been more 
ieee f and quite hae aacaty, revised by my asnoriolleued 
t, Miss Smith, who has portrayed the results of our analyses, 
bgt with the drawings of the plants themselves 
Tas recognition of the help rendered is fully in aceoed with the 
best traditions, and contrasts somewhat strangely with the action 
taken in other quarters. We noted at p. 95 the omission of the 
author’s name from the last edition of the Guide to Miss North’s 
paintings at Kew, and we see that no one is responsible for the 
‘Flora of St. Vincent” which occupies the last number (September) 
of the Kew Bulletin. Internal evidence points to Mr. R. * ee a 
as the compiler, but it is to be regretted that his name 
mentioned, if only for convenience of citation. The Bulletin ‘teclf 
has never appeared under any editor’s name; and although we 
believe it to be ap Hi that Mr. D. Morris edits the ‘‘miscel- 
neous information” it a this is nowhere stated. 
Tue enumeration of the St. Vincent plants is — by ~e 
Pace note on the cd, and followed by a summary fro 
ey it appears that the total number of flowering Slants salioetel 
t. Vincent and the four yg ne a, Cannonan, 
a. and Union,—including naturalised plants and those 
inserted on the authority of the early collectors, is aoa 1150. 
The following species are endem 
Trigynea antillana Rolfe. dc teieonia tubiflora Griseb. 
Spachea perforata Juss. Malouetia retrofleca Muell. Arg. 
Meliosma Herberti Rolfe. Columnea speciosa Presl. 
Calliandra Guildingii Benth. Peperomia cuneata Miq. 
Psidium Guildingianum Griseb. P. Vincentiana Miq. 
Gustavia antiliain Miers. Croton Guildingii Griesb. 
Tibouchina cistoides Griseb. Epidendrum Vincentianum Lindl 
Begonia rotundifolia Lam. Tillandsia megastachya Baker. 
The Trigynea and Meliosma are here first described. 
an) account of Colonel Robert Kyd, the founder of the Calcutta 
nic Gardens, is published in the fourth volume of its Annals. 
He i is described as ‘‘a keen gardener,” but it does not appear that 
he had any knowledge of plants botanically, siete the foundation 
of so important a garden as that at Calcutta ae him a claim to 
the esteem and respect of botanists. Some scanty ig iy apc 
regarding him is given in the Biographical List, to which Dr. King’ 
memoir enables us to add that he was of an old Forfarshire family, 
and was born in 1746. A portrait, copied from a coloured crayon 
