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to 1808, and at Caleutta from 1817 to 1823; and the drawings were 
done partly at one place and partly at the other. They were presented 
to the Royal Gardens by Miss Mary Hutton, the daughter of the artist. 
Many of them are bold and vigorous representations of tropical fruits, 
such as the mango, durian, guava, rose-apple, papaw, and ipu ee ; 
and of such showy genera as Bombax, Ster culia, Pterospermum, Bute 
and Erythrina. The collection also contains quite a long series of 
species of Convolvulacee. 
Drawings of Mauritius Plants.—Mr. J. W. Duhcan, son of the late 
James Duncan, who was for many years Director of the Mauritius 
Botanic Garden down to 1865, has presented a es cen of 85 coloured 
drawings of native Mauritian an which ade when a boy. In 
consequence of the great extension of éuitvatims; many of the rare 
native plants are extinct, and common ones have become rare. any 
of the drawings are figures of vec pier of whieh we possess only very 
indifferent specimens, or none at all. The fact that they are localised 
also adds to their value. Among other rare plants represented are :— 
Mussenda Stadtmanni, Nuxia verticillata, and Arndtia mauritiana. 
. G. D. Haviland's Bornean Collections.—From time to time the 
arrival has been announced of valuable collections of plants from Kini 
Balu and the tropical region of North Borneo. Dr. Haviland lias 
returned to England for a short period, bringing with him a large and 
long series of duplicates, whieh he distributed at Kew previcus to his 
return to Borneo by way cf Natal and Mauritius, 
Flora of Central Tibet.— Previous to Colonel Przewalsky's explora- 
tions little was known of the flora of the vast country lying immediately 
north of the Himalayas, generally known as Tibet; and only portions 
of his discoveries have teen published. Sir Joseph "Hooker penetrated 
the frin nge of this country on the Sikkim frontier; Dr. T. Thomson, 
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extreme That was upwards of 40 years ago. Since then various 
other trèvelleri have entered the country for short distances at bei ue 
points; and the rieh flora of the extreme east has been made known 
through the extensive colleetions sent to Europe by Father David, Mr. 
Pratt, Prince Henry of Orleans, and others. 
Captain Bower's journey across Tibet from west to east, in latitudes 
between 34 and 30 degrees, and Mr. Woodville Rockhill’s journeys from 
north to south, in about the longitude of Lhassa, are so well known that it 
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made a collection of all the plants found growing at elevations between 
15,000 and 19,000 feet. Mr. Rockhill also collected, and his plants, as 
well as Mr. oe s, were presented to Kew, as announced in the Kew 
Bulletin (1893, p. 369). 
These sess e together with a smaller one made by Captain H. P. 
Picot, of the eger: Staff Corps, in the Hoea Tie plains, form the sub- 
ject of a paper read by Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, before the Linnean 
Sie M and pubtithed in the Roolebrs dauid (vol. xxx, pp. 101- 
40.) The number of novelties is not “great ; but about 30 per cent. of 
5S species are peculiar to Tibet, and another 20 per cent. ein eee 
to the Himalayas. The chief teresi of the collection, however, is 
the nature and general distribution of the plants forming this ced 
