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axis of the plant, before the flowering period, is one of the best 
of all vegetables, and is, or was, an important article of food in 
Abyssinia. 
A figure of Mr. Thomas’s specimen was given in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for 1900 (xxvii., p. 69, fig. 22). 
but the summit of which till late years had remained emen 
1842. Since then various travellers have been there; some for 
scientific sitio es; others for the commercial exploration of its 
singular and varied natural productions. In 1884 another explor- 
ing expedition, in which Everard im Thurn, Esq., C.M.G., took part, 
spent some time in investigating the botany and zoology of this 
remarkable sandstone monument, which he was the first to 
ascend; and the botanical results were published by Prof. D. 
Oliver in zen T'ransactions of the Linnean Society, Botany 2nd 
series, ii., pp. 249-300, tt. 37-56. i this Auer three new genera 
and upward 8 of 50 new species are described. It was hardly to 
be expected "that UE ie Beten man should T so fruitful in 
novelties ; yet Messrs. F. V. Mc Connell and J J. Quelch, who 
were there in 1894 akd 1898, brought home a collection of dried 
plants hardly less rich in novelties, which are now being worked 
out at Kew, and will be published in the Transactions of the 
Enan Soviets y, illustrated at the expense of Mr. Mc Connell. 
This compact little collection consists of about 360 species, in- 
cluding one new genus of Composi ie ous 70 new species. Among 
the most interesting are new species of the genera Pass iflora, 
idymopanax, Sciadophyllum, Didymochiamys, Heterothalamus, 
Stiff tia, pucri and Lisianthus 
The Flora of St. Vincent, West Indies. —In the Bulletin for 
ale, who was a A of the late Sir William 
Hooker. It is supposed that he was born in St. Vincent, and 
from a letter in the Kew correspondence, written by his brother 
John, it appears that he died in Bermuda on the 22nd of October, 
1831, E the early age of 33. He was evidently an ardent 
naturalist and a skilful draughtsman and colourist. A number 
‘of his kawa were reproduced by Sir William Hooker in the 
. Botanical Magazine and other publications. Noteworthy among- 
them are the admirable figures of the Bread fruit n Mag» 
