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P. laxa, left no doubt in my mind that the latter is a derivative 
from P. fontana, marking a still further divergence from the type, 
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distant-leaved shoots which are identical with P. lawa in every 
respect. The stem leaves are large, widely cordate and acuminate, 
with stout nerve, recurved margin, and strongly papillose cells, 
which are distinctly narrow and somewhat incrassate above. We ave 
here, therefore, to all intents and purposes, P. lara and fairly 
typical P. fontana growing on one and the same plant, and I think 
it must be taken as conclusively proved that the claim of indepen- 
dent rank must be denied to P. lava, avd that it must be reduced 
SIR HENRY COLLETT 
(1836—1901). 
By the death of Col. Sir’ Henry Collett, C.B., on Dec. 2st, 
1901, science has lost a botanist. Born in 1886, he had a dis- 
tinguished military career in India. He was severely wounded in 
General’s Agent, and the Colonel commanding were slaughtered by 
the degraded impure-caste half-savages of Munipoor, the Civil 
