146 
ExrRaAcT from F. O. Rerort, 1893. Annual, No. 1278, p. 12. 
TABLE showing Exportation of Liquorice from Bilbao to Foreign 
Countries during the year 1892. 
HE 
| | | | Tons, Cwts. 
— a — 16 5 
To 
Articles. Total. 
France, 
England. 
Belgium. 
Holland. 
Tons. Cwts. 
Extract of Liquo- 16 6 
rice. 
ExrRAcT from REronr for the year 1892 on the Trade of Baghdad and 
Bussorah. 
[F. O. 1894. Annual Series, No. 1320, pp. 7-8.] 
Liquorice roof is obtainable in large quantities on the banks of the 
Tigris, and considerable expansion in the trade may be looked forward 
to, being in good demand in America for manufacture of tobacco 
CCCLXXVIII.—FLORA OF ALDABRA ISLANDS. 
In the Kew Bulletin (1893, p. 162) some preme are given of 
the Aldabra Islands; and mention is also made of the miscarriage of a 
collection of dried plants made there by Dr. W. L. Abbott, an American 
naturalist. Since then the plants have been ce from the United 
States National Museum, and Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., the Keeper of 
the Herbarium, has worked them out. A list of a the species follows, 
with descriptions of the novelties. The latter are more numerous than 
r 
of them may yet be found * some rues of the small islands or in 
Madagascar. The shrubby Euphorbia Abbottii is the most striking of 
the novelties. The plantalluded to by Dr. esed in his letter published 
in the place cited above, as a sort of Aloe nd: the most conspicuous 
plant in the islands, is omatophyllun. Borbonicun, Willd., previously 
only known from Bourbon and Mauritius. It is noteworthy that the 
collection does sei prion a single tern, grass, or orchid, nor any member 
of the Composit 
List of the Plants, with their Geographical a stribution and 
Descriptions of the new Specie 
CAPPARIDE®. 
1. Cleome (Polanisia) strigosa, O/iv.—Mozambique, Zanzibar, and 
Glorioso group of islands. 
2. Capparis galeata, Fres.—Tropical Africa, Egypt, Arabia, India. 
Nearly allied to the common Mediterranean and Oriental C. spin nosa. 
