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Mr. J. Buchanan, C.M.G., Acting Consul in Nyasaranp, has 
presented the Kew establishment with the first set of a large collection 
of DRIED PraAwTS made in that region in return for the approximate 
naming of the same. The collection contains probably at least 500 
speeies, each represented by several specimens ; but until the collection. 
is worked out it is impossible to do more than make a very rough guess 
at the number of species. 
The number of species of PraAwTSs collected by Dr. G. D. Haviland in 
the district of SARAWAK, Borneo, has been increased by two further 
collections to about 1,000. "These two sets almost surpass the first one 
iolepis, Hexatheca, each only previously 
known from a single species found either in Sumatra or in Borneo; 
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Euphorbiacee. So far as the determinations have been carried at 
present, two genera seem to be quite new, one near Torenia, and the 
other near Ardisia. 
which 41 are cryp s. f the phanerogams a re 
collected below 7,000 feet, 75 between 7,000 and 10,000 feet, and 70 
above 10,000 feet, on the steep rocky sl of the summit. ur 
vol. ix., amounting altogether to 30, this collection is highly interesting 
and illustrates the vegetation of three distinct regions as indicated 
macee, Orchidee, Myrsinee, and Euphorbiacee ; from 7,000--10,000 
feet, Vacciniacee, Rubi Myrsinee, Ericacee, and Myrtacee, Of 
the '"Melastomacee only two were collected as against 23 in the lower 
ion. Here Conifers an cus i 
imane numerous. Above 10,000 feet Cyperacee, Orchidee, osaced, 
Rubiaceae, Vacciniacee, and Erica predominate. Conifere are 
presented by Phyllocladus hypophylla, Hk. f., and two Podocarpi, 
the first reaching 12,000 feet. A dwarf oak, and probably anew genus of 
ornacee, near Alangium, to this and t i ate region. 
iw of the plants are identical with species found by Sir William 
MacGregor in i 

the highlands of New Guinea, such as Drimys piperita, 
