82 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
descriptions already published. 
In the eg which followed, a question was asked as to 
whether Dr. Masters had not something to say from the evolutionary 
point of oi as to “the phylogeny and morphology of the genus in 
esti reply he confessed that he could say no more in this 
connection eas that when pine-cones are first met with, in the 
Vine 
acted wisely in refraining from the treatment of a which, 
o te advances, ine felt to be better left to younger men; for wi 
creasing experience the conviction grew that facts aloe are of 
ihetential Palo speculations cease to interest us, an 
realize that a theory, however industriously and ingeniou 
lished by one ps th is pretty sure to be jamaliahe no less 
conclusively by another 
‘¢ Marty in es year Messrs. Methuen will publish a book by 
Mr. John Parkinson‘ Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris’; or, 
‘A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers.’ This will be issu ued 
at 30s. net, but twenty copies will also be issued in I apanese vellum 
at 10 guineas each.” This from the Daily News, which evidently 
regards ‘‘ Mr, John Parkinson” as a living author. It is not so 
long since an wee ae press-cutting agency sent an application 
addressed ‘ ‘T. A . Kempis, Hog: ” to a publisher of an edition of the 
* Imitatio.”’ 
Ir is somewhat startling to find in the part of the Icones 
‘Pieniecslis issued last November two plates signed ‘*W. Hood 
Fitch.” No explanation is given of this posthumous publication— 
Mr. Fitch died in 1892—but we believe they were prepared for a 
paper ‘‘ On the Apocynaceous Caoutchouc-yielding Plants of Malaya 
and Central Africa,” st i d to have —_ ‘‘yead”’? by Sir W. T. 
Bytes ms (then M ¥ W. T. T. Dyer) before the Linnean 
Soe une 15, 1882 (Proc. Linn. Soc. 1880-2, p. 85), but 
fiedcs  idisbih They are excellent plates, ‘aithibagl ms is badly 
printed, and show how much botanical illustration lost by Fiteh’s 
death. The other contents of the number are of more than average 
interest; they include a remarkable new Brachystelma (B. Johnstont 
N. E. Br.) with “v very long woolly tails’? to the petals; an ex- 
arr wat n by Mr. Hemsley, with a good plate, of Rhopalocarpus, a genu 
f doubtful affinity placed by Engler and Prantl in Flacourtiacee ; 
a the following new genera—Androtium Stapf (Anacardiacea, 
Buchanania), Eucorymbia Stapf (Apocynacea, near Cailichilia), 
Glumicalyx Hiern (Scrophulariacea, near Digitalis and Isoplexis), 
Xylophragma, Sprague (based on Bignonia pratensis and B. myrt- 
. Mr. Hemsley con me his investigation of the Central 
S 
American species of Hryngium; Miss Smith seems to us at her 
best when figuring this genus. 
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