BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 987 
until the Flora is completed: the undertaking of an individual, 
although more arduous, is not so liable to hindrances as are works 
by several hands, or those which, like stash colonial floras, are 
n offici 
an oO quasi-official n ew species 
Vitis Woodrowtt Stapf MS., Lleiotis trifoliolata T. C and 
Flemingia nilgiriensis Wight MS.—ar seribed, and Indigofera 
Dalzellit supersedes I. triquetra Dalz. non L. We nih I Dr. 
Cooke restores the correct — aaa —of the often 
printed “odearaeg but somewhat inconsistently votiina Saloni 
in preference to the éarliar Sesban. The notes—e. g. on 
Buckitonia® tat (p. 276)—show much care and resea aveh, and 
the book is a scholarly and useful addition to our list of colonial 
floras. The an of publication should be placed on each part 
Grorce SamurL JENMAN was born i in the south of Pngiand on 
to the dhistee of the botanical pect at Castleton, Jamaica. 
but 1 Sonn time for various excursions, rot which he made 
large collections of plants, both phanerogams and ferns, ¢ containing 
many novelties whic rye een described by various botanists. 
te principal botanical work, however, was among the ferns, of 
e 
portant enumeration, with descriptions, of the ferns of the British 
West ome and Guiana; this unfortunately remains incomplete, 
be ene to bring it to a conclusion. — id not content 
pants f very various natural o iat Among ers we notice 
Aloe ndtislanst Wood & Evans (Plate 258), a “esaription of which 
Will be found in this Journal for last year (p. 170) in a reprint from 
ee ood’s Report of the Natal Botanic Gardens. 
