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REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1905. 



By A. B. Rendle, D.Sc. 



The following additions have been made to the collections by 

 presentation : — 170 phanerogams and 80 cryptogams from Malaya, 

 from H. N. Ridley ; 48 phanerogams from the Shan States, from 

 Major C. H. Melville ; 4 phanerogams from India, from Dr. T. 

 Cooke ; 45 phanerogams and 20 cryptogams from Hong-kong, from 

 S. T. Dunn ; 188 phanerogams from Eastern Mongolia, from 

 C. W. Campbell ; 1954 phanerogams and 136 cryptogams from 

 Western China, collected by E. H. Wilson, from Messrs. Veitch ; 

 69 phanerogams from Rhodesia, from E. R. Sawer ; 21 phanero- 

 gams from Northern Nigeria, from Dr. Karl W. Kumm ; 3 speci- 

 mens of Convolvulaceas from Northern Nigeria, from Capt. G. B. 

 Gosling; 122 phanerogams and 8 cryptogams from Angola, from 

 J. Gossweiler; 153 phanerogams and 3 cryptogams from the 

 Transvaal, from J. Burtt Davy ; 106 phanerogams from the Uganda 

 Protectorate, from Dr. A. G. Bagshawe; 3 specimens of Compositae 

 from South Africa, from Dr. H. Bolus ; 4 specimens of Conifer® 

 from Mexico, from George Shaw ; 11 specimens of violets from the 

 United States, from Homer D. Howse ; 6 phanerogams from Cali- 

 fornia, from Dr. Davidson ; 24 specimens of Sarracenia from Dr. 

 J. M. McFarlane, Philadelphia; 249 phanerogams and 17 crypto- 

 gams, collected in Mexico, 1827-9, by G. J. Graham, from Mrs. 

 Howgrave Graham ; 36 specimens of Podostemaceae from A. W. 

 Bartlett ; 401 phanerogams and 17 cryptogams from Chili, from 

 G. F. Scott Elliot ; 7 flowering plants and 13 cryptogams from 

 Tierra del Fuego, from Capt. Crawshay ; 41 phanerogams and 

 13 cryptogams from the Falkland Islands, from Mrs. Vallentm ; 

 5 specimens of Azalea critically determined, from Herr J. Valckenier 

 Suringar ; specimens of cultivated plants from A. Perry, James 

 O'Brien, Walter Ledger, and E. A. Bowles ; a section of yew from 

 the Red Bog, near Ballyfin, Queens Co., Ireland, from R. D. Cole ; 

 a leaf of Ceratozamia mexicana and a specimen of Kcballium Ela- 

 terium for exhibition, from the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew ; 

 and 7 specimens of Characeae for exhibition, from H. and J. Groves; 

 100 ferns from the South Sea Islands and New Zealand, from 

 Commander G. G. Webber ; 3 ferns from the Pyrenees, from C. E. 

 Salmon ; 37 mosses from Fernando Po, from W. S. Sherrin ; 

 13 mosses from the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, from M. J. Car- 

 dot ; 24 hepatics from Jamaica, from Alexander W. Evans ; 4 new 

 marine algae from the Faroe Islands and Norway, from H. G. Sim- 

 mons ; 24 tubes of freshwater algae, collected by I. H. Burkill, from 

 Lt.-Col. D. Prain; photographs of 7 types of Japanese Sargassa 

 in Herb. Harvey from Dr. E. Perceval Wright; 33 lichens from 

 Bombay, from Rev. E. Blatter; one or two specimens from Sir 

 Daniel Morris, Miss Copland, J. W. Odell, F. Garry, Lieut. Rayner 

 Cole, Franklin White, Dr. Britton, Dr. Morrison, Rev. R. P. Murray, 

 W. Fawcett, Rev. J. Gerard, C. Kerr Wilson, Miss Anna Vickers, 

 and J. T. Bennett-Poe ; a drawing of a group of plants by 



