DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 175 



Department of Botany. 



I. — ArrangefYient and Conservation. 



During the past year 19,048 specimens, consisting of 

 13,498 Flowering Plants, 268 Vascular Cryptogams, 525 

 Mosses, 53 Hepatics, 1,503 Lichens, 46 Algse, and 3,155 

 Fungi, have been mounted and incorporated with the 

 Herbarium. 



Flowering Plants. — Portions of the following collections 

 have been laid out and incorporated with the general Her- 

 barium — Dr. Hassler's collection from Paraguay, Father 

 Hugh Scallan's collection from Central China, Rev. Urban 

 Faurie's collection from Japan, and a collection of Philippine 

 plants from Mr. E. Merrill. Dr. Bagshawe's collection from 

 Uganda has been incorporated; and a collection from 

 Rhodesia, by Mr. Fred EjT^les, has also been determined and 

 incorporated. 



In the division Polypetalse various collections have been 

 laid out and incorporated ; the principal additions being to 

 the orders Rosacese, Leguminosse and Cniciferse. The Poly- 

 petalse of a collection from Mongolia by Mr. C. Campbell 

 have been identified. The order Chailletiacese has been 

 re-arranged, and the South American Anonacese have been 

 revised with reference to Dr. R. E. Fries's papers. 



In the division Gamopetalse, specimens have been laid 

 out and incorporated in connection with the orders Rubiacese, 

 Compositse, Convolvulacese, Solanaceso, Bignoniacese, and 

 Gesneracese, and work of re-arrangement or revision has 

 been done in the orders Rubiacese, Ericaceae, Convolvulaceae 

 (especially tropical African and American), Scrophulari- 

 acese, Selaginese, and Labiatse, and in the genera Eupatoriuw,, 

 Abelia, Heliotropium and Calceolaria. 



In the Apetalse a large number of Euphorbiaceae have 

 been laid out and incorporated, as have also collections from 

 Malaya (by Ridley), British Columbia (by Shaw), Mexico 

 (by Pringle), and Australia (by Statter and Podenzana). A 

 collection from Uganda, by Dr. Bagshawe, has been worked 

 out and incorporated, and a .small collection from Mongolia 

 by Mr. C. Campbell, has been determined. Some time was 

 devoted to the identification and revision of tropical African 

 Loranthacese. 



In the Monocotyledons various collections have been laid 

 out and incorporated, including plants from Angola, collected 

 by Gossweiler, from South Africa, by Schlechter, from the 

 West Indies, by Curtiss, and from Australia, by Podenzana ; 

 also a number of Indian and Malayan palms. Work of 

 re-arrangement or revision has been done in the orders 



