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The African species of the genus Eriosema have been revised, 

 and several novelties described and published. Several new 

 species of Malvacece have likewise been published during 

 the yeai-. The plants of the natural order Dipterocarioece 

 have been re-arranged and revised with the assistance 

 of Sir D. Brandis, who spent some time in this country 

 in order to monograph the Order. The genus Del'phinium 

 has also been re-arranged in accordance with the mono-, 

 graph of D. Huth. The above, together with the usual 

 attendance on visitors, and the working out of a small 

 portion of the collections made by Mr. Scott Elliot on his 

 Ruwenzori Expedition, have constituted Mr. E. G. Baker's 

 duties for the year. 



Mr. Britten has incorporated additions to the Herbarium 

 in the Monopetalous Orders, especially in Ruhiaceoi, Acan- 

 thaceoe, Scrophularinece, Bignoniaceob, Asclej)iadaGeai and 

 ApocynecB. A large num.ber of species in these Orders have 

 been determined. Tropical African plants have received 

 special attention ; the East African collections received from 

 Berlin have been laid in, as well as many of the plants col- 

 lected by Dr. Gregory and Dr. Donaldson Smith ; a good deal 

 of time has also been spent on Mr. Scott Elliot's collections. 

 Among other collections wholly or in part incorporated may 

 be mentioned those of M. Bang from Bolivia, Dr. Haviland 

 from Borneo, and J. M. Wood from South Africa. Mr. 

 Britten has devoted much time to the Departmental Library, 

 and to matters arising in connection therewith. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle has incorporated with the general 

 Herbarium the following collections : — Apetaloe, Monocotyle- 

 dones, and Gymnospermce collected in Greenland by Harz, 

 in Galicia by Blockj, in Bulgaria by Stribrny, in Armenia by 

 Sintenis, in Asia Minor and Persia by Bornmiiller, in 

 Formosa by Henry, in Borneo by Haviland and Hose, in 

 the Straits Settlements by Bidley, in Kashmir by Duthie, in 

 Tropical Africa by Volkens, in South Africa by Schlechter, 

 in Australia by Mueller, in Canada and Vancouver Island 

 by Macoun, in California by E. P. Greene and others, in Texas 

 by Heller, in Mexico by Pringle and Palmer, in Hawaii 

 by Heller ; ApetaleB collected in Paraguay by Morong, in 

 Jamaica by Fawcett and others ; a collection of Potamogetons 

 (European) from Tiselius, of Orchids from Wood (JNatal), and 

 King (Calcutta), of Nepenthes from Lobb (Borneo and 

 Malaya). In the group Apetaloe some work has been done on 

 the Natural Orders Nyctaginece, AmoA'antacece, Chenopod- 

 iacew, Polygonacece, and Euphorhiacece, much material 

 hitherto undetermined (chiefly African) having been worked 

 up and incorporated, and the African genera revised accord- 

 ing to recent monographs. This included the determination 

 in part of the Tropical African collections of Gregory, W. E. 

 Taylor and Scott Elliot. Forbes' Malayan plants of this 



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