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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Tar Tcones Plantarum is now ‘edited for the Bentham Trustees”’ 
companion to the m onograph of Indian Orchidacee, which Sir 
Joseph has just mite in the Flora of British India. It was 
presumably unavoidable, but is ee, inconvenient, that this 
monograph should be divided between two volumes of the Flora. 
‘It is strange that so awkward a sentence as “ ‘Referred by Reichen- 
bach (in Trans. Linn. ee) to B. triste of R. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 
253, and of which there is a specime 8 in Herb. Lindl. ” should have 
think, might have ei the eiieants to * hay Linn. Soc.,’ 
which is not given the Flora of British India: we regret sis 
that three men of sutt eminence should have introduced a new and 
insufficient abbreviation—* R. f.”’ 
Tue part (vol. x., part ii.) of — reine sete: last September is 
of more varnent interest. It i y devoted to . Henry’s 
interesting Chinese ee saeoee whisk. Prof, Oliver finds the 
ollowing new genera :—Tapiscia (Sapindacew), and Hucommia 
‘* genus peeets um, op rem edis’’). Mr. Bolus describes a few 
uth African plants, including two new genera—Dermatobotrys 
(Seropinlrines) and Tysonia (Boragines). 
A terre from Mr. H. N. aan contains an eben 
large part of the Eaton Mr. Ridley. is Fae Secrétary to the 
l ommittee of the Imperial agemios and is hopmg shortly to 
establish a Museum in Singapor 
ofiest cae is a to re Binge in February, and sion 
eed thence to Buitenzorg. He has made several additions 
the the Ceylon ried ohich W we hope to publish poets the end of the 
year 
Dr. G. E. Posr is making rapid proces with his Flora of 
Palestine. The work is printed as far as the end of Umbellifera, 
and the author hopes to complete it in the course of the next two 
years. Dr. Post has just published (Lausanne, Bridel) an 8vo 
pamphlet of 14 pages, entitled Plante Postiane, which contains a list 
of the plants collected by ric in Hermon in 1890, among which 
are the following new species :—Sisymbrium grandiflorum, Astragalus 
Palmyrensis, A. Shepardi, ee Mitchellit, grids: Antilibunt, Muscari 
albicaule, 
