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Department of Botany. 



During the past year 20,670 specimens have been named^ 

 mounted, and incorporated with the general Herbarium. These 

 have consisted principally of specimens of Bixinece and 

 RosaceoB from Western Tropical Africa; Myr^tacece and 

 MalvacecG from Africa ; Vochysiacece and Polygalacece from 

 Brazil ; Geraniacece from South Africa ; Legwtninosce from 

 Europe and Asia ; Malvacece from Chili ; MelastomacecB from 

 India and America ; Umhelliferce from Abyssinia ; Primu- 

 lacece from India ; Asclepiadacece from Africa ; Urticacece^ 

 from China ; Orchidece from Tropical Africa ; Aroidece from 

 India; Graminece from Johore and Assam; Mosses and 

 Hepaticce from the West Indies and Africa ; Algce from the 

 Cape ; and Fungi from North America and the West Indies ; 

 of plants from Bulgaria, collected by Blockj ; Arabia, 

 collected by the Bent Expedition ; Singapore, by Ridley ; 

 Afghanistan, by Aitchison ; Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Spencer 

 Moore ; and of Syria, by Post ; and of numerous specimens 

 belonging to the following Orders from different parts of 

 the world : — Guttiferce, Malvacece, Myrtacece, Melastoma- 

 cece, Leguminosoe, Compositce, Convolvulaceoe, Solanaceoe, 

 Scrophularinece, Verhenacece, Lahiatce, Nepenthaceoi^ 

 Bromeliacece, Cyperacece, Gramineae, Filices, LycopodiacecBy 

 Equisetacece, Alga;, Fungi, Mosses and Lichens. 



The collections of plants made in his expedition to Tropical 

 Africa by Dr. Gregory have been named, and the collections 

 made in Kolguev Island by Mr. Trevor-Battye. 



In the progress of the work the officers of the Department 

 have been occupied as follows : — 



Mr. E. G. Baker has principally been engaged in incorpo- 

 rating with the general Herbarium the polypetalous plants 

 gathered in Syria by Dr. Post, in Mexico by Dr. Pringle, in 

 Natal by J. M. Wood, in Afghanistan by Aitchison, and by 

 different collectors in Tropical Africa. He has arranged the 

 collections made at different times in Europe and Western 

 Asia of LeguminoscB, and has laid a large number into the 

 Herbarium. The plants of the Order Guttiferce have been 

 arranged and revised in accordance with the recent mono- 

 graph by Vesque ; and the species of Oxalis from Chili have 

 been named up from the recent memoir of Dr. Reiche. With 

 the assistance of Professor Greene, of California University, 

 he has determined a large number of Calif ornian plants. 

 Several collections of plants have been determined, and the 

 new species belonging to the Polypetalse have been described,, 

 including the plants collected by Dr. Gregory in his expedi- 

 tion in Central Africa, and the plants collected by Mr. Trevor- 

 Battye. 



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