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Department of Botanv^. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During the past year 29,775 specimens have been incor- 

 porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 22,300 

 Flowering Plants, 1,284 Vascular Cryptogams, 481 Mosses, 

 945 Hepatics, 2,321 Lichens, 123 Algse, and 2,321 Fungi. 



Flowering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated as follows : — Europe (Herb. Normale, Dorfler ; 

 Batotheca Europ?ea, Sudre), South France and Switzerland 

 (Thompson), Balkans (Adamovic), Montenegro (Bierbach), 

 Stiria (Hayek), Asia Minor (Sintenis) Egypt (Bornmiiller), 

 Malaya (Ridley, Winkler and others), Philippines (Merrill), 

 Japan (Takeda), South and West Africa (Schlechter), Natal and 

 East Africa (Wilms), Sudan (Chevalier), West Australia 

 (Andrews), Gulf States of North America (Tracy), Mexico 

 (Purpus), and a large collection of Jamaica plants presented by 

 the Colonial Secretary for Jamaica. Progress has been made 

 with the selection and incorporation of the herbarium of the 

 late R. P. Murray (European and Canary Islands), and with 

 the determination, selection and incorporation of the early 

 Australian collections. The following collections have been 

 wholly or in part determined and incorporated : — Sherbro 

 Island, Sierra Leone (Hunter), Nigeria (Kitson), Rhodesia 

 (Rand, Monro, Chubb, Swynnerton), Uganda (Brown), Central 

 Africa (Kassner), Angola (Gossweiler), Fiji (Gibbs), Christmas 

 Island (Andrews). 



In the division Polypetalse additions have been made by 

 incorporation, especially in the orders Leguminosee and Rosacese. 

 A considerable amount of time has been devoted to the 

 incorporation and in part identification of collections from 

 various parts of Tropical Africa. 



The African species of the genera Triumfetta and Olax 

 have been rearranged and certain Mexican genera have been 

 revised. 



General work of incorporation has been done in the 

 divisions Gamopetalae and Apetalse of Dicotyledons and work 

 of determination in the orders Goodenoviese, Pedalinese and 

 Euphorbiacese (tropical African species). 



General work of incorporation has been done in the section 

 Monocotyledons. The British Herbarium has been rearranged 

 and unmounted material incorporated up to date. The work of 

 sorting and arranging duplicate specimens has been completed 

 up to date. 



Ferns. — Additions have been made by incorporation in the 

 families Polypodiacese, Equisetacese ; collections from Jamaica, 

 Philippine Islands (Elmer), Malay region (Ridley), Fiji (Gibbs) 



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