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numerous trivials—e. g. Nove-Britannie and Nove-Guinex—are 
adorned with capitals; but we are glad to note that the former 
practice of spelling the adjectival form of personal names with a 
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Baker fil., and I. Lepriewrit Baker fil. (names which must stand) 
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podocephala, Crocodilodes seminivea, C. su a. azumovra 
hispida (see Journ. Bot. 1901, 69) also finds no place, although 
the genus, as there pointed out, has priority over Centranthera, and 
is not among the “ nomina rejicienda” of the Vienna Rules.* 
Criticisms such as these, however, although they may show 
that this new Supplement might possibly have been more careful 
in details, are not intended to depreciate its value as a work of 
reference, as which it is, as we began by saying, indispensable to 
systematists. 
Handbook of Flower Pollination based upon Hermann Miiller’s 
Work ‘The Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects.’ By Dr. 
Paut Knots, translated by J. R. AInsworTH Davis, M.A. 
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to Stylidiee (the Bentham-Hooker arrangement being followed in 
the work), containing a full account of all recorded observations 
including in less detail observations made in Europe on cultivated 
species. How extensive the observations have been may 
gathered from the fact that the mere list of papers and books 
consulted occupied nearly two hundred pages of the introductory 
* The publication of the two genera stands :— 
Razumovia Sprengel Mant. Prima Fl. Hal. 45 (1807). 
CENTRANTHERA R. Brown Prodromus, 438 (1810). 
The speci far publi under Razumovia are:— 
R. TRANQUEBARICA Spreng. l. c. 
GC. humifusa Wall. List, 3883 (nomen); Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 525 (1846). 
R. uispma Britten in Journ. Bot. 1901, 69, and Illustr. Austral. Plants, 67. 
. hispida BR. Br. lc. 
