170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Botany. 



During the past year 19,125 plants, consisting of 9,975 

 Flowering Plants, 159 Vascular Cryptogams, 1,326 Mosses, 

 404 Hepatics, 1,006 Lichens, 69 Algae, and 6,186 Fungi, have 

 been mounted and incorporated with the Herbarium. 



In the progress of the work the staff of the Department 

 and others have been occupied as follows : — 



Mr. Baker has incorporated with the General Herbarium 

 various collections of Caryophyllacese, Onagracese, and Lythra- 

 cese. The Cistinse have been revised and rearranged accord- 

 ing to the recent monograph of Herr W. Grosser in "Das 

 Pflanzenreich," and various collections have been incorporated. 

 An examination has been made of as many of the types as 

 were found to be accessible of the Tropical African species 

 of Indigof era ; a paper embodying the results of this examina- 

 tion and containing an enumeration of the Tropical African 

 species with the description of novelties was published, and 

 the Herbarium specimens were revised. The first consign- 

 ment of Polypetalse collected on the Uganda Boundary Com- 

 mission by Dr. Bagshawe was determined. The identification 

 of the Polypetala3 collected on the Percy Sladen Expedition 

 to Central Brazil was almost completed. A small collection 

 of Leguminosse from the Island of Lagos was determined. 

 Some time has been devoted to the British Herbarium. 



Mr. Britten's principal work has been the preparation 

 (with Mr, Gepp) of the history of the collections, which has 

 been completed and sent to press. He has also continued the 

 preparation of the Botany of Cook's First Voyage and the 

 identification of other collections made by Sir Joseph Banks 

 in Madeira, Newfoundland, &c. Additions and revisions have 

 been made in the Orders Saxifragacese (Ribes), Rubiacese, 

 Gentianacese, and Myrsinacese, and a considerable number of 

 plants in the Sloane Collection have been identified. Mr. 

 Britten has also exercised a general supervision over the 

 acquisition of books, and has continued to assist in the pre- 

 paration of the botanical portion of the Catalogue of the 

 Museum Library. 



Dr. Rendle has incorporated with the general herbarium 

 the Monocotyledons and Apetalous Dicotyledons contained 

 in collections from Malaya by Ridley, Persia by Sintenis, 

 Mexico by Pringle, Roraima by Quelch, Santa Martha by 

 Smith, Brasil by Reinecke, Togo-land by Warnecke, and the 

 Monocotyledons from collections from West Australia by 

 Andrews, and from India received from the Calcutta Botanic 

 Garden. He has also named and incorporated the Monoco- 

 tyledons contained in collections from China by Father Hugh, 



