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It is evident. set the plant has a fairly wide distribution in tropical 
ica. It is found, according to specimens, in the Kew Herbarium, 
n Porto ge ps Daina (Imray), Martinique (Hahn), and 
St. Vincent (Anders one ap is also known in San Domingo and Hayti, 
and extends southwards to Trinidad and Guiana. It does not appear 
to have been found fects either in Jamaica or Cuba. 
When the tubers were received from Trinidad in 1891 they were 
vol. xiii., p. lix. :—‘ Mr. Morris exhibited specimens of tuberous ie 
e Zion ang to be] produced by a species of Kempferia at Trinidad, an 
as food under the name of *'Toppee Tambo.’ Mr. y 
TL. 8, the sender of the specimens, stated that the small tubers are 
“preferred and these are boiled and eaten like a potato with salt and 
They have a i 
u at 
* the name of ‘Tokkee Tambo.’ Mr. Morris added that this was an 
* interesting record of the use of the tubers of a Scitamineous plant for 
“ purposes of food, and he suggested that they might be chemically 
* investigated. Professor Church was good enough to undertake an 
* examination of the specimens and report the results at a subsequent 
* meeting." 
In the same Journal, p. cix., it is further stated * Professor Church 
~ had pm is the tuberous roots exhibited at a previous meeting by 
* Mr. Morris, which are used as food in Trinidad and Dominica. He 
* found that they contained very little starch, but a oe — 
iodin as pre sent. These roots, therefore, would seem to have a 
jompi € closely bling the tubers of Stachys tuberifera,” 
[a new vegetable lately Ditin into this country]. 
RRR 

CCLXXIV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

R. J. Burrr Davy, Office Assistant, has resigned his appointment 
in iis a Rajat Gardens, owing to ill-healt h. 
Dr. H. Duxinrmtp Scorr, F.L.S., late Assistant Professor of 
Botany at the Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines, 
South. Kensington, has been appointed Honorary Keeper of the 
JODRELL Lasorarory at the Royal Gardens. This laboratory was 
built in 1876 through the munificence of T. J. Phillips Jodrell, 
Esquire, M.A., for the purpose of investigations on the material 
afforded by the living collectione maintained in the Royal Gardens. 
