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attracted a considerable amount of attention, judging from the a that 
they were soia at Kew from several different brokers about the same 
time, and a month later, in March 1891, samples were also Pus 
having been sent to Kew by a seed-crushing firm at East Greenwich. 
The interest attached to them from a commercial point of view is 
themselves, without the fleshy coverings, have been received at Kew, it 
is clear from these alone that the plant belongs to the natural order 
Olacinee, and probably to the genus Heisteria. The fruits as received 
are hard and w woody, requiring some aan he Fed et they are ovate 
brown co marked b 
being filled with a whitish, ah and very o poscis kernel. From the 
m a 
mm alue. as bee ence t 
been obtained, the only information on that head hee as before stated, 
that they were imported from the West Coast of Africa 
Through Dr. Bataline, the gry sy of Dr. Regel in the pee | 
of the Imperial Botanic Garden of St. Petersburgh, Kew has received 
a further consignment of dried Pues comprising about 1,200 species. 
dis collected by Russian 
explorers in CENTRAL Asta. It also includes a small collection from . 
Hayti, whence we have very few plants in the Kor Herbarium. 
Our rapidly i ME LisRARY of scientific serials v ie augmented 
by an almost complete set of the tnc of the Academy of Science 
of St. Louis. It was a "eife from the Academy, Spinto es m the 
kind offices of Dr. N. I. Britton of Columbia College, New Yor 
From Dr. G. King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, we have received a valuable collection of about 100 sheets of 
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