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been received. Amongst the hey plates included in this part 
are three of new species, namely :—Oncinotis gius Moraea 
en. ige Chlorophytum Bayyorthit From the author, Prof. 
A. Gravis, of Liége, has been received an Slabdrate quarto work 
entitled : : Rams Eolo anatomiques et Le gerne be igs sur le T 
descantia virginica, L.; also Archiv es de U Institut Botanique de 
l'Université de Liége, vol. 1. From Mr. Ti iei ck the final part 
of his work on the Gramineae, which includes descriptions and 
figures of the ce reda and cultivated grasses of France d pter 
Britain, and Switzerland. Dr. J. P. Lotsy has sent a copy 
Mededeelingen den ws Gabrabhric der Gouvernements K iraola 
neming, No. 1, containing his work—De Localisatie van 
Alcaloid in Cinchona Calisay ya rip meer en in Cinchona succi- 
rubra. Aninteresting volume entitle = Textrinum Antiquorum, 
an account of the Art of Havin among the Ancients, by 
James Yates, London, 1843, has oe received from R. B. Prosser, 
Amongst other presentations may be mentioned Mr. A. 
Jaezewski's Monographie du genre Sphaeronema, Fries, from the 
author; Transactions of the Jenner Institute of Preventive 
Medicine, second cie ne the Council; Icones Selectae Horti 
Thenensis, from Mr. van den Bossche ; Die Entwickelung der 
Pflanzengeographie is din let ien hundert Jahren, from the 
author, Prof. A. Engler ; Tentamen Florae Rossiae Orientalis, by 
of about 20 serial publieations presented by the Bentham Trustees. 
Plants presented to the Herbarium during 1899. — Five 
fascicles of excellent specimens of Hieracia, from France and 
Spain, distributed by Messrs. G. Arvet-Touvet and G. Gautier. 
Dr. F. Arnold has sent the continuation of his Lichenes Exsiccati. 
A set of Sieber's plants, collected on his “ Iter alpinum delpi- 
nense,” from Dr. J. Briquet. Austrian “Kryptogamae Exsic- 
catae," Century IV, from Dr. A. Za visse * Flora Exeiccalà 
has om 
Dr. Sven Hedin's plants, also from Tibet, from Professor F. W. C. 
Areschoug. The chief Chinese collection received was a set 
of Oaks from Shensi, presented by Dr. E. Baroni, of Florence. 
Indian and Malayan plants have been contributed by Dr. D. Prain, 
J. F. Duthie, Esq., H. N. Ridley, Esq., Dr. Treub, and C. Curtis, 
Esq., and numerous specimens, frequently of his new species, 
from British New Guinea, and Queensland, by F. Manson Bailey, 
Esq. J. H. Maiden, Esq., and R. T. Baker, Esq., have sent new or 
rare plants from New South Wales, and Maurice Holtze, Esq., of 
Adelaide, a set of Mr. Max Koch’s plants from the Mount Lynd- 
— Distric t, South Australia. Two small collections from the 
hbourhood of Albany, Western Australia, have been received 
an Sergeant B. T. Goadby. Amongst the African collections 
received is one made Sine Ae cem M. S. Wellby, during his travels 
in Southern Abyssi ral small ones from K. J. Cameron, 
ger made at. fied; "British Central Africa, and. — E J, 
