168 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Botany. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During the past year 23,525 specimens, consisting of 

 17,475 Flowering Plants, 1,880 Vascular Cryptogams, 128 

 Mosses, 36 Hepatics, 2,464 Lichens, 370 Algse, and 1,172 

 Fungi, have been mounted and incorporated with the 

 Herbarium. 



Flowering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated as follows : — Dr. Hassler's collection from Para- 

 guay (in part), Rev. Urban Faurie's collection from Japan, 

 Korea, and Formosa, (in part), Mr. Forbes's collection, mainly 

 from China, collections from West Australia by Drummond, 

 from Tasmania by Gunn and Milligan, and from South 

 Africa by Dr. Schlechter and Dr. Penther. Collections from 

 Rhodesia by Mr. Eyles, Mr. Swynnerton, and Miss Gibbs, 

 from Uganda by Dr. Bagshawe, from Somaliland by Mr. Bury, 

 and from the African Lakes by Dr. W. C. Cunnington have 

 been wholly or in part named, mounted, and incorporated. 

 Dr. Patrick Russell's Aleppo plants and the collections made 

 by Banks and Solander in Polynesia and New Zealand have 

 been in part identified and collated with recent literature. 



In the division Polypetala^ the South African collections 

 of Zeyher have been incorporated, and additions have also 

 been made by incorporation especially in the orders Caryo- 

 phyllacese (South African specimens), Meliacese, Burseracese, 

 Guttiferse (specimens from Herb. Miers), and Cactacese. The 

 genera Mesemhryanthemum, Drosera, Hircea, and Mas- 

 cagnia have been re-arranged, and the North American Saxi- 

 fragacese have been revised by recent monographs. Work 

 of revision has also been done on the orders Haloragese, 

 Sarraceniace^, and the Indian species of Nymphoia ; and 

 the genus Bersama has been monographed. In the division 

 Gamopetalse the order Primulacese has been re-arranged 

 according to recent monographs, and work of identification 

 and revision has been done on Compositse and Acanthacese 

 from Madagascar. Collections made in Uganda by Dr. Bag- 

 shawe and in Rhodesia by Mr. Eyles have been worked out 

 and the novelties described and published. 



In the division Apetala3 work of incorporation has been 

 done in the orders Euphorbiacese and Urticacese, and work of 

 revision and arrangement on the Urticacese of tropical Africa 

 and on the orders Podostemacese and Nepenthacese. 



In the Monocotyledons work of incorporation has been 

 done chiefiy in the orders Orchidacese, Cyperacese, and 

 Graminese. Work of revision has been done on the Rhode- 

 sian Liliaceae, and work of revision and re-arrangement in 



