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dealt Novum IN HERBARIO Hoses Ree CONSERVATARUM. 
ikea energy and curiosity of the British race is ee It 
l and explores ot part of the world, and Aes s into Kew a 
continuous stream of botanical information and specimens. It requires 
thi mitting exertions of: a staff, none too numerous, Ad prevent these 
o 
n this way, at no cost to the Goyeriiüeth, 
Y 
Central Africa, the subject of a detailed 
of sufficient interest in smaller colleetions is illus- 
trated with a ae * Hookers Icones Plantarum." Novelties of 
insufficient impor rtance to justify a plate have hitherto been rek pai to 
their proper places in the Herbarium, where they await description by ` 
80; ; 
: rapher. ` 
It has been found, however, that collector are best dhcoarageð when 
they see that the result of thei V tain: supplies some tangible addition - 
to scientific knowl t seems expedient therefore to describe, fo or- 
the information of pon and distinguish by formal names all plants : 
eceived at Kew of which the noveity can be ascertained with some 
certainty. And in accordance with the principle laid. down by the First 
- Commissioner, that the Kew Bulletin nis to be made the vehicle, as far as 

 lishment to communicate for publie information, successive Sire of 
* plant-descriptions will from time v time be published in its page 
re in eultivation in the am ang Qui 


DECAS L 
; Szechuen, on Pis summit of Mount Omei, Rev. E. Faber, 731; 
Wushan, Dr, Henr ry, 6701; edid near T: ipee at 9,000 
r. A. ^x Pratt, 169 and 2 
ze fep this (manuscript in the Ków Herbarium), a 
r lis integerrimis, o japonica, 'Thunb., aud there can be 
no question ndi: a close genetic eonnexion; but it is easily distin- - 
ruished by the entire leaflets and by the much more numerous ovoid 





j carpels very chole- to “these oe 
ftii associated wi dh i onal 5-foliolate leaves. E 
2 ia officinalis, Hem [Legumi Kia Camiin] ee 
i pinnatis, foliolis fere pr obacurissime TOTER legumine 
sto 3—1 poll. longo, 
Arbor 30-40 pedalis trunco spinis armato (A. Henry), ramulis hes 
eris flexuosis. inermibus parce puberulis pallidis crebre lent 
‘olia ra riferorum omnia Napier reed fere. pee 
: cum petiolo 6-10 aen m: foliola » opposita, br 






