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ease. He was buried at Doddington, near Chatteris. Two months 

 previously he had written to the Editor of this Journal a letter, 

 a portion of which may fitly conclude this notice : — 



" Herewith my kindest wishes for the coming j'ear to you and yours ; 

 and many heartfelt thanks to you for all the years of kindness and help- 

 fulness you have given abundantly since we first met in the Museum. 

 I can always see you as I saw you then; a kindly but disciplinary face 

 coming towards me full of helpfulness and greeting ! This may seem in 

 little agreement with my delayed reply to your welcome note of tw^elve 

 months ago but it is not really so; in heart and mind I write to you 

 almost daily, but never get the M^ords written down. In fact the past 

 year has been one of strenuous work, the hardest of a long life, and rest 

 was needed. Now at eighty-five I have given up the garden that used 

 up all my energy, and hope to finish the natural history work that is due 

 from me. 



" I don't feel old, and can walk a dozen miles without fatigue, or twenty 

 at a pinch, so I hope for enough time to enable me to put my plant- 

 house in order ; the more important order has been in the doing for some 

 eighty years, and cannot be altered or undone by any effort of mine. The 

 mercy of The Father can alone forgive and amend that." 



A. H. Evans. 

 James Beitten. 



The accompanying portrait is from a photograph taken in 1901. 



A EE VISION OE THE GENUS BEBTIEBA. 

 By H. F. Wernham, B.Sc. 



The Genus. 



The examination of various BuhiacecR in the course of my duties 

 in the National Herbarium has led me to attempt the revision of 

 some of the more doubtful genera. Hamelia formed the subject 

 of a previous paper (Journ. Bot. xlix. 206), and in the present one 

 the allied genus Bertiera will be dealt with. The latter shares 

 with Hamelia the characters of the tribe Hameliecs, viz., a fleshy 

 indehiscent fruit containing a large number of minute seeds, usually 

 angular and flattened, with foveolate testa and fleshy albumen. 

 It differs from Hamelia in having contorted corolla lobes and a 

 bilocular ovary, the five anthers being subsessile in the throat of 

 the corolla, and also in its general facies, which is more or less 

 distinctive. As in the case of Hamelia the unopened corollas are 

 characteristic, being conspicuously pointed at the apex of the 

 bud, sometimes lengthily acuminate. The leaves are invariably 

 opposite, never whorled, with sheathing stipules; the whole plant 

 forms a shrub usually, or occasionally a small tree. 



The genus was founded by Aublet upon a shrub collected by 

 him in the woods of Aroura, Guiana, the publication of the name 

 dating from 1775 ; a co-type is preserved in the National Her- 

 barium. ^ Aublet gave a careful and detailed description, naming 

 the species B. giiianeiisis ; this has proved to be the most widely 



