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i. vanilias and tin them according to thelr lengths, and care should 
e taken not to pack the tins too closely.” 
An account of Vanilla cultivation with hints for fertilising the 
flowers and curing the pods was given in the Kew Bulletin, 1855, 
pp. 76-80 (with plate): The other references are as riui rib a 
collection of vanilla pods in the Kew Museum (No, IL.), 1 977; F; 
Disease of Vanilla, Seychelles, 1892, pp. 111—120 (with pi ; Vanillas 
of Vei from Mexico, Bourbon, Mauritius, South America, and 
Tahiti, 1892, pp. 212-214; Vanilloes, an inferior sort of Vanilla, from 
Gusdelonys and Martinique, 1892, pp. 214-215; Vanilla in British 
Honduras, 1893, p. 3 
CCCXCVIII.—FLORA OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 
Within the last decade Kew has received in the aggregate a con- 
siderable number of dried eei n this group of islands, ineluding 
some highly eurious novelties of the more striking of which have 
been published.* These were collected by Mr. H. B. “Gu uppy and the 
Rev. R. B. Comins. In Apri e present gre a small collection was 
received from the same nd. made b he offieers o .M.S. 
** Penguin," and communicated by Captain w G. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 
Hydrographer to the Admiralty. pie of the specimens were spoilt 
88; many w 
Malaya and Polynesia, but there is a resi Mines of sufficient interest to 
put on record, including a few previously tidenetibed species. 
SAPINDACEJE. 
Allophylus littoralis, Blume (Schmidelia littoralis, z .—Malay 
Archipelago and New Guinea. This is probably a variety of the 
— spread and visisble A. Cobbe, Blume. Mr. Guppy also collected 
in the Solomon Islands, where it occurs in the coast region. 
T NES pores 
Barringtonia racemosa, Blume.—This very handsome tree is widely 
aene ranging through Eastern India, Malaya, and Western Polynesia 
to New —— but this, we believe, is the first record of it from the 
Solemon Islands 
MELASTOMACE, 
Medinilla Mortonii, Hews. n. sp. 
M. heterophylla: proxime iducden s, differt imprimis novellis hirsutis, 
foliis tenuioribus opaeis, in ptite re axillaris bracteolis majoribus. 
Frutex scandens (fide Guppy et Comins), probabiliter —— 
reet floriferis crassiusculis pravis. Folia ams xe a, vel u 
omnino deficienti pseudoalt erna, tenuia, fere branacea, in m 
RRA furfuraceo-hirsuta, minora sessilia vat cunda rotundato- 
* Annals of Botany, Vols. v. and vi. and Hooker's Jcones Plantarum, Series 4, 
Vol. iii. 
