150 
fuller Mu of these brush-makirg fibres (including split bamboo) 
t values have receded, and Palmyra ranges to day from 224. 
to 38h. 
The chief objection to Palmyra by saree ergy is that it lacks 
trai i e s are bei ma this country to 
by importers and dressers that Palmyra should, for wear then, be found 
AUN to the best Brazilian. 
We are, &c. 
(Signed) Ink AND CHRISTI. 
D. Morris, Es. IM. A, BES. 
R oyal Gardens, Kew. 

CCLIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Charles H. Curtis, a sub-foreman in the Royal Gardens, has been 
appointed Assistant-Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
Garden at Chiswick. 
The principal recent acquisitions for the LIBRARY mn De Tussac’s 
* Flore des Antilles”; Ligou’s “True and Exact History of the Island 
of Barbados”; Tchihatcheff’s * Voyage Beicitifique dans l'Altai 
Oriental" ; and Gerarde's ** Catalogus Arborum fruticum ac plantarum 
tam indigenarum quam exoticarum in Norts Gerardi nascentum, 1596." 
Mr. A. Franchet, of ed Paris Herbarium, has recently presented to 
Kew an almost co mplete s t of his numerous papers on the Flora of 
China and Japan. 
The trustees of the Bentham fund have presented a considerable 
We have also been able to complete, or nearly so, partly by purchase 
and partly by exchange, various Indian and Colonial periodical ener 
tions, such as the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; 
and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales ; A 
ceedings of the New Zealand Institute. And through the kindness of 
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller we possess a set of the Victorian Naturalist 
from the commencemen 
In his recent expedition round the north coast of Madagascar the 
Rev. R. Baron has discovered a LABIATE WITH STINGING HAIRS, This 
singular plent EA our British Urtica dena. and Lamium album 
in leaves and general habit, It proves to be an undescribed species 
of tbe, genus 88 POMPE MRM 
