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, which is, unless I am greatly mistaken, the 
nut-bearing tree, with leaves like maidenhair (foliis adiantinis), of a 
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Mr. R. A. Rotr 
Kew, exhibited a series of specimens of Pachi - 
a me imsignis Savigny, from British Guiana, collected by the 
Be 
hese trees were co over the great alluvial forest-region, 
extending also to B ; ere monly cultivated fo 
ornament r. Rolfe also exhibited some specimens illustrating 
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the Precocious germination of the seeds of a species of Dracaena. 
Germination had taken place through the pericarp while the berries 
were still hanging on the plant. 
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chief collectors having been Mr. Scott Elliot, Prof. Gregory, Mr, 
F. J. Jackson, Lord Delamere, Dr. 8, E. Hinde, Mrs. Lort Phillips, 
Dr. Donaldson Smith, Rev. W. E. Taylor, of Mombasa, and Prof, 
Mackinder. From the southern tropies he described some plants 
collected. by the late Mr, John Buchanan, by Mr. Crawshay, and 
