882 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Maria and Diamantino. The flora here is of mixed character, 
nearly 87 per cent. of the plants being common -to Tropical Sorih 
America, upwards of 27 per cent. occurring in the North Brazil- 
Guiana province of Engler, with 20:5 per cent. common to that 
province and the South Brazilian, and only 13 per cent. of South 
Brazilian types. From Santa Cruz a party worked its way through 
more than 28 per cent., and the South Brazilian element is present 
to 
party then came araguay to bi, where many 
plants of interest were found. The expedition was finally abandoned 
at Asuncion. Amo e Amazonian plants collected at Santa 
superba, Epidendrum imatophyllum, Rodriguezia secunda, &c. The 
Cycad* Zamia Brongniartii is a native both of Santa Cruz and of 
n Campos. e collections include close upon 700 
species, of which rather more than 200 are considered to be new. 
There are eight new genera, two of which are Anonaceous, and one 
each referable to Secrophulariacea, Artocarpea, Euphorbiacee, Aroide, 
: Gramineae. Specimens, photographs, and a map, the 
latter constructed by the Messrs. Storm, leaders of the expedition, 
and embodying the geographical discoveries, were exhibited. 
Tue Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, for which Prof. Caruel 
has hitherto been responsible, will, on and after January next, be 
published by the Societd Botanica Italiana. No other change will 
be made in the mode of publication. 
In reference to our paragraph on the Flora of St. Vincent 
e learn -that i impossib ign the papers 
of the Flora implied a want of recoonition of th i f the 
Kew Herbarium staff, and this we py eg eel 
Tue volume (xxv.) of the Journal of the China Branch of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, recently issued at Shanghai, is devoted to a 
new instalment of Dr. Bretschneider’s valuable ‘ Botanicon Sini- 
cum,’ of which we hope to say more at a future period. 
Tue Editor of Erythea seems to be under the impression that 
Kew. is November 
remature circulation” 
of the prospectus of the Index Kewensis as : fault of Kew’’: but a 
sees to p. 317 will show that we put the blame on the right 
oulders, Mr. Jepson also wants to know the exact date of the 
publication of the Index: it was issued on the 6th of September, 
