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Department of Botany. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During the past year 25,625 specimens have been incor- 

 porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 21,425 

 Flowering Plants, 1,598 Vascular Cryptogams, 6 Mosses, 

 41 Hepatics, 898 Lichens, 218 Algae, and 1,439 Fungi. 



Flowering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated as follows : — From Hungary and Styria (Hayek), 

 from the Balkans (Schneider), from Denmark (Rubi by 

 Fredrichsen), from Poland (Flora Polonica), from Asia Minor 

 and Persia (Bornmiiller), from Turkestan (Kegel), from Malaya 

 (Eidley), from China. Corea and Japan (Faurie), from German 

 East Africa (Scheffler, Biisse), from Cameroons (Zenker), from 

 South Africa (Schlechter), from Montana (Blankinship), from 

 Washington (Suksdorf), from Texas ( Lindheimer j, from Jamaica 

 (New York Botanic Garden), from Costa Rica (Tonduz), from 

 Bolivia (Fiebrig), from Brazil (Dusen, Riedel), from Patagonia 

 (Dusen), and from New Caledonia (Schlechter). 



Collections from Malaya (Ridley, Bartlett, Hose, Hewitt and 

 others), from Uganda (Bagshawe, Brown), from Gazaland 

 (Swynnerton), from Rhodesia (Chubb, Kassner), from Angola 

 (Gossweiler), from Nigeria (Yates, Kitson), from Chili (Middle- 

 ton, Philippi, Scott Elliot), and from West Australia (Sargent), 

 have been wholly or in part named, mounted, and incor- 

 porated. 



In the division Polypetalse additions have been made by 

 incorporation, especially in the orders Ranunculacese, Caryo- 

 phyllacese, Bruniacese, and Leguminosse. A considerable 

 amount of time has been devoted to incorporating and wholly 

 or in part identifying various African collections, especially a 

 large collection from Gazaland made by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton. 

 Work of revision and rearrangement has been done in the 

 orders Menispermacese (in conjunction with Dr. Diels), Bixineae 

 (the African species), and Crassulacese (the genus Kalanchoe). 

 Portions of the collections made by Dr. A. G. Bagshawe in 

 Uganda have been worked out in conjunction with the collector 

 and the results published. The undetermined specimens of 

 Chinese Impatiens have been named and annotated by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, and the undetermined specimens of the genus 

 Xanthophyllurn by Dr. Chodat of Geneva. Some work of 

 revision on the genus Grewia has been done by Mr. J. R^ 

 Drummond and Mr. T. A. Sprague (of the Kew Herbarium). 



In the division Gamopetalse additions have been made by 



incorporation, especially in the orders Rubiacese, Caprifoliaceae 



Compositae, Polemoniacese, Apocynacese, Asclepiadaceae, Con- 



volvulaceae and Scrophulariacese, and work of revision has 



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