176 THE JOURNAL OF: BOTANY 
flowers and fruits of Sterculia Alexandri Harv., an extremely rare 
tree from Uitenhage, the only locality known for it, where it was 
first found in January, 1848, by Dr. R. . Alexander (afterwards 
Prior). The spec cimens shown had been collected by Dr. S. Schén- 
land, F.L.S., who reported that the seeds were of pleasant taste 
nd de 
voured Py the hobo. Ir. C. H. Wright showed specimens of 
Spherothylax algiformis Bisch., a rare South-African Podoste- 
maceous fe a and an of the outward resemblances of some 
plants of this family to certain Pi ae showing side by side 
examples of Hydrostachys imbricata A. Juss., and H. nana 
as resembling the alga Caulerpa cupressile, and Tristicha hyp- 
nowdes —— with the form of a m 
THE last part (vol. xxiii. pt. 3) = the Transactions of the 
Botanical Soclety of Edinburgh —: an interesting article on 
Patrick Blair by Mr. — P. hes tevenson, which contains 
puzzled to identify “ Frank Townshend, a distinguished British 
botanist,” who lived at ‘‘ Wornington Hall”; Frederick Townsend, 
of Honington, is the botanist intended. 
Mr. W. E. Nicnouson sends us a reprint of what is evidently 
ub- 
botanists as would be afforded by our own pages; every biblio- 
grapher r kno owe the difficulty experienced in tracing information 
scattered through local and often ephemeral publications. The 
list contains 344 species, one of which has lately been described 
as new by Dr. Culmann, whose description we reprint on p. 173. 
Tue Department of Botany has recently received a large and 
important collection of Angolan plants from Mr. John Gossweiler— 
his second contribution to a knowledge of the botany of this rich 
district of tropical West Africa. Mr. Gossweiler has collected in 
the Ganguellas and Ambuellas country, in in interior of south- 
east Anite east of the Kunene River, and many of his specimens 
correspond with, or supplement, those obtained by the German 
collector H. Baum on the Kunene-Zambesi Expedition. Others 
are species hitherto regia only from Welwitsch’s econgina nae ; 
pecimens e 
hitherto we have had ae uniques. The collection also iter 
a, number of — which are in course of description 
