22 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
to some extent is due to the tax imposed upon his energies by the 
direction of the Royal Gardens, although his predecessor contrived 
to find time for most of his work in the Genera Plantarum. It may 
be, however, that on his retirement the late Director will emulate 
the energy of Sir Joseph Hooker, who has not ceased to continue 
his contributions to systematic botany, and now, in his eighty-eighth 
year, is engaged upon the Indian Balsams ! 
Tt may be hoped that Dr. Prain will resume the publication of 
the annual reports of Kew Gardens which were suspended during 
a 
NEW or RARE GAMOPETALZ rrou TROPICAL AFRICA. 
By Spencer te M. Moorz, B.G., Eds, 
I.—Rev. W. E. Taytor’s Brirish East Arrican Pranrs. 
Tue opportunity has recently been afforded me of examining 
some Gamopetale collected by the Rev. W. E. Taylor in the coastal 
region of Eastern Tropical Africa, especially among the Rabai hills, 
and presented to the British Museum. 
have from time to time yielded a considerable percentage of novel- 
ties, greater perhaps than might have been expected considering 
the i ) of the district in 
question. The following plants are worthy of notice :— 
Tricalysia ovalifolia Hiern in Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. 119,—Rabai, 
March and November. : 
Vernonia homilantha 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 188.—F rere 
Town, December. Native name, « Mlalapiri.’’ 
lepharispermum zanguebaricum Oliv. & Hiern in FI. Trop. Afr. 
ili. 8336.—Rabai. 
Coreopsis Taylori sp.nov. Verisimiliter perennis caule erecto 
valido nudo multistriato, lis gracilibus distanter foliosis glaber- 
