814 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
of his stamp, or to some purely bureaucratic body. This danger 
was pointed out b ee or Gazette in its account of the 
British Association meetin 
“It is in sf toate, ae res A the dangers to a scientific on ai 
directly under our bureaucracy when Professor Oliv n_ his 
address this deere to the Botanical Section, iaiunily nian that 
the British Museum botanical collections should be transferred from 
rd : 
bareuts of scientific research by subsidies, it must be content to 
poe t the disposal of Dine subsidies to boards of independent 
th seems to us that, of ssi pe ee he has supplied a 
weighty argument in favour of r g the two herbaria, so that 
if at one the ‘“ dead Welwitschia” o rshocld d be one d by the «live 
dandelion,” the former may yet be retained in safe custody for the 
benefit of future students. 
uch more might be said did space allow. It would be possible, 
for instance, to show more fully what has already been indicated— 
namely, that Prof. Oliver is hardly qualified, either by knowledge or 
constant and hard worker’; and we can only hope that increasing 
years will enable him to take broader views, and at least to recog- 
nize that his individual apa is not the only one, and need 
not necessarily be the bes 
A NEW INDIGOFERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
Indigofera circinella, sp.nov. Suffrutex. Caules ramosi 
superne angulati plus minus albo- strig gillosi ex speciminibus mihi 
obviis 12-16 cm. longi. Folia i imparipinnata pallide viridia 1-3- 
juga cum impari subsessili vel petiolulato, foliolis oblanceolatis vel 
oblongo-oblanceolatis inferne albo-strigillosis ad summum 8:0 mm. 
longis lateralibus alternis. Stipule lineari-lanceolate. Flores 
tenuiter pedicellati, pedicellis fructiferis deorsum arcuatis. Calycis 
ubus brevis extus albo-strigosus, lacinia quam tubus longiores 
anguste lanceolate. Corolla in n speciminibus mihi obviis deest. 
Ovarium lanceolato-lineare albo-strigillosum. Stylus pecraus: 
Stigma parvum terminale capitellatum. Legumen eeeauiatimn 
tortum subtorulosum plurispermum extus ee apice 
mucronatum subcylindricum ad su ne turas subincrassa 
Species I, alternanti DC. 8. 
