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Contribution to the Montane Flora of Fiji, including Cryptogams, 
with Ecological Notes.” The Fiji group consists of two hundre 
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Gardens at Mauritius, spent a year collecting in the late seventies. 
Thanks to these investigators, the flora of the lower parts of the 
chief islands are fairly well known. The author decided to con- 
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were spent at Nadarivatu, the highest inhabited point. From the 
collections the flora may -be described as Indo-Malayan; they 
contain about forty new species records—thus of 
the eight species of Piper Mr. C. de Candolle found five to be new, 
and of Peperomia all seven proved novelti The introduction 
concluded with some observations as to the origin of the flora 
and, when printed, will be followed by a systematic enumeration 
of the whole collection. 
Tue volume dealing with Alpine Plants at Home, which form 
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No. 20 of Messrs. Gowan & Gray’s series of “ Nature Books ”— 
so he most remarkable sixpennyworths ever pub- 
lished—contains sixty representations of plants in situ, repro- 
duced from photogra :; erville Hastings ct 
Messrs. Casseut have issued a neat shilling illustrated hand- 
hem, b Mr. H. H. Tho ’ 
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which appears to contain a comprehensive and practical account 
original Sweet Pea as a “poor, small-blossomed flower ”—Com- 
melin’s figure (in 1701) has flowers as large as the modern average 
and the same may be said of specimens grown by Uvedale before 
