INDEX KEWENSIS 59 
The first part, which constitutes the bulk of the book, is an 
alphabetical Piece sn of all generic names, with authorities— 
those retained being in black type, and the rest reduced to their 
equivalent. Un iter keh retained genus are given the date of 
establishment, its order, the estimated number of recent and fossil 
species, the geogra aphical Molsibation, the synonyms reduced to it, 
and the sections, if any, into which it has been divided, thus :— 
61; 8. Abelicea Rehb. 1828, omit 
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Syn.: Planera Desf. 1815 non Gm. 1794. Planera. 
§ Abelicea Endl. 1837, Zelkoua Spach 1841.” 
The type, eae close, is clear, but we think the use of italics for 
certain details would have made consultation easier. The figures 
the systematic arrangement which forms the second part of the 
volume. It may be doubted whether more information has ever 
Some names appear here for the first time, and are accompanied 
by a short nec ig ip é. concep este O. K. 1903, based on Patrinia 
monandra Clarke, has a : “Genus alterum monandrum Valeri- 
anacearum, ab gen. Phu for soaleouee fr. triloculari non plumoso 
differt.”’ The plant had already been named Monopatrinia, as a 
section of Patrinia; this name is dismissed—‘‘ nom. delendum 
sesquipedale.”” Dr. Kuntze’s sensitiveness on this point is not 
quite easy to understand, as he revives aaa retains pee much 
longer emg um in place of Melaleuca. 
One name, the identification of which has escaped both Mr. 
Jackson and Dr. Kuntze, may be cleared up by a reference to this 
Jo ye : 
On ag in one small point aa we find mes al for wife doAiesble 
criticism. Mr. . Jackson sume years since denounced ‘* the 
vile practice of intermingling I with J and U with V”’ as “‘a reli 
of barbarism”; the Lexicon perpetrates the former, although we 
are glad to say ‘it eschews the latter. 
Index Slee Plantarum Phanerogamarum, Supplementum Primum 
886-95]. Confecerunt Tazopsitus Duranp et B. Daypon 
ame. Fasci ara (I or pala Te 4to, pp. 225-3828. 
Bruxelles: A. Casta ne. [Nov. 1903.] 
WE are gla a to liaise the publication of a third instalment 
of the Supplement which forms an indispensable companion to the 
equally indispensable Index Kewensis, bringing that work ten years 
nearer to the present time. The progress is at least as rapid can 
il ide one seeing that M. Durand is unfortunately 
and more incapacitated by failure of sight for his roe of 
iia the work through the press. It is to be regretted that no 
one can be found to relieve him of this irksome task, especially as 
it ig to be feared that the usefulness of the undertaking, great as it 
will always be, is to some extent impaired by this affliction; for, — 
