INDEX KEWENSIS, ETC. 161 
Burmas Launzan”’; and he is careful not to adopt this vernacular 
name as a genus: ‘I believe it will be found to constitute a new 
genus; but I do not venture to give it a name, till the Kuropean 
botanists have ascertained whether or not it be reducible to any 
— genus of 
e first thing that strikes us about the initial instalment of 
the oe needed Supplement to the Kew Index is at inadequacy 
of the information supplied by its cover. This giv Srp price, 
date, nor place of publication ; indeed, there is no rice e that it 
has been published. But as a copy was received in the Depastnen 
of Botany through a bookseller on the 11th of February, i y b 
assumed that it was issued to the trade a little before iat viaeiet 
and the circular which was sent out in advance of publication tells 
us that the Supplement will be issued in four parts, at the sub- 
scription price of 54 francs, post free, ve re it may be obtained 
from M. Durand at the Brussels Botanic 
One or two improvements have been inteoataode into the Supple- 
ment, which of course in its main lines follows those of st Index 
Kewensis. The date of publication is given in every ¢ and 
for plants published in out-of-the-way i Sreergad an additional 
literary grounds. The genus Oxalis, for ween gee “f —ing by 
Miconia), which consequently ee more teri seven columns! 
Even when thus run together, the homonyms under dcetosella 
occupy Vy best part of a a mn, and are followed by some 
Which need to be treated gs tely, as Dr. Kuntze has in 
certain instances changed Sg Saar pe in others has dupli- 
cated them é.g. 
“‘comosa Kuntze 1. c. 91 = O. comosa E, Mey 
comosa Kuntze 1. c. 92 = O. comosa Prog.” 
8 is the natural consequence of transferring names without 
bikin into the botany of the matter; common sense as well as 
modesty suggests that such wholesale renaming should only be 
Yous or Borany.—Vou. 40. [Aprit, 1902.) - 
