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A valuable addition à the HERBARIUM er recently been. received 
from Professor E. Bureau, the Director of t aris Herbarium, Jardin 
des Plantes. be includes 530. species of St. "Hilaire's Brazilian collee- 
tions, man es of Species first described y St. tis oi 
Yunnan s 50 of Faurie's oe plants, embracing 
the types of new species described by Mr. A. Franchet. Final 
of Deflers’s South Arabian plants. The last contains many species 
not previously collected since Forskael traversed the same country 
about the middle of the last century. 
Last year Mr. J. J. Lister, M.A., oped to Kew a collection of 
dried plants made by himself in the Tonca IsrANDs, and chiefly in the 
island called Eua, where he spent several months in 1889 and 1890, 
studying the geology and natural history. e collection is not a very 
extensive one, but. it * Pig ea to show that the flora is a part of 
that common to the Fiji, Samoa, and other neighbouring - groups. .of 
islands. ll the side ad most of the species are the same, and 
although about a score of the species appear to be undescribed it does 
not follow that they are endemic, because the flora of the Fiji islands 
is still very imperfectly known. 
ADEN SENNA.—U nder this name a variety of Senna "gren recently 
at the London drug sales. It w e the subject of a note to the 
iufusion of two leaves that it produced a full effect upon a strong man 
and caused no griping, in consequence of which it seems to deserve 
further investigation. 
From the leaflets Mr. Holmes supposes the plant to be Cassia 
hoéosericea, Fres., a shrubby plant of Aby ssinia and Nubia extending 
to Arabia and as far eastward as Scinde. ew Museum is indebted 
to the Pharmaceautical Society for a a of this Senna. 
At the request of the Colonial Office the services of Kew have been 
enlisted to obtain for the Administration of New GUINEA a supply of 
plants of the Jamaica banana a (known in Trinidad a as the Gros Michel), 
and also good seed of Liberian coffee and Arabian coffee, free from leaf 
di These plants and seeds were obtained Bro ghi th the good offices 
of the Botanical Department in Jamaica. They were damaid and 
cared for on arrival at Kew and then forwarded to New Guinea through 
the “agar of the Agent-General for Queensland. As nearly all 
coffee-growi countries in the Eastern tropics are more or less infected 
with coffee- leaf disease, this supply of sound seed from mnes will 
enable coffee industry in New Guinea to be started under 
the new 
favourable conditions. It is important however to keep the piai 
as free as possible from contact with seeds and plants of coffee from any 
otber locality in the East Indies. 
Bampoo GanpEN.— The collection of hardy Bamboos and allied plants 
havin s outgrown the space allotted them in the beds near the Temperate 
