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URTICACES, 
Ficus species duæ indeterminate.—Only the climbing sterile con- 
dition. One of them is very much like the familiar F. stipulata, but 
much smaller. 
drawn u The Rev. R. B. Comins collected the same € in the 
Solomon Islands, and the specimens are in much the same condition. 
ORCHIDE. 
Dendrobium lineale, Rolfe. —Also ae by Mr. Guppy, and vant 
are cultivated specimens in the Herbarium r orded from New Gui 
It is exceedingly near D. veratrifolium, Lidl, and possibly eraen a 
colour variation. It inhabits the same countries. 
Dendrobium Goldfinchii, F. Muell. in King’ s Southern Science 
Record, January 1883, ex descriptione—The same species was 
conéetid in the ‘Admiralty Islands by the late Professor Moseley, on 
the voyage of the “ Challenger," and b both Mr. Guppy and the Rev. R. B. 
Comins had previously collected it in the Solomon Islands. Sir F. 
Mueller gives no dimensions, and his description is in other respects 
not quite sufficient to arrive at certainty with regard to the identity. 
Dendrobium RUN Rich. ?—Also found in the New Hebrides 
and Eastern Austral 
Bolbophyllum, sp. nov. ?—1t would require too great an shee 
of time to determine whether this is one of the very numerous described 
species of this iun not represented by authenticated cee in the 
Kew Herbarium 
rammato phyllum. —Detached flowers only of a marked species. 
Similar specimens from Mr. Guppy. 
Spathoglottis Vieillardii, Reichb. f.—New Caledonia, New Hebrides, 
Solomon Islands, and Banda. 
CCCXCIX.— METHODS FOR FXTERMINATING LOCUSTS 
IN THE CAUCASUS. 
The a interesting correspondence is published for general 
information 
Foran OFFICE to ROYAL — Kew. 
n Office, June 15th, niat 
I Aw directed by the Secretary of "State for Foreign Affairs 
transmit to you the accompanying copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's s 
Consul at Batoum, respecting the best methods for exterminating locusts 
and other harmful insects. 
SIR, 
I am, &c. 
The Dire (Signed) ^ E. GREY. 
Royal edel Kew. : 
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