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Pelicans.—The fine birds received from Admiral Blomfield in 
Dibihber last (Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 25) are now believed to be 
Pelicanus onocrotalus, not, as then stated, P. crispus. In May 
last two further pelicans were received at Kew through 
„Mr. T. L. F. Beaumont, Chairman of the Gardens Committee at 
Karachi. These are believed to be Pelicanus mitratus. 
Bamboo brooms.—An addition to the collection of bamboo pro- 
ducts exhibited in Museum No. 2 of the Royal Gardens has recently 
been made by Mr. J. H. Hart, Superintendent of the Botanic 
arden, Trinidad, who sends some convenient sized hand brooms 
made entirely from the stems of what is ee pii. 
vulgaris. In the preparation of these brooms the outer portion 
of the stem is split down, then beaten into a fibrous ed turned 
back, and tied viel with tri leaving the central and naked 
portion of the stem to form the handle. The brooms illustrate a 
very simple pi useful application of bamboo stems. 
Artemisia pallens.—Mr. G. Marshall Woodrow, Professor of 
Botany, Poona, has communicated E the Herbarium a number of 
specimens of an Artemisia which is, he states, cultivated in the 
Bombay Presidency and used as a offering at the nava 
festival. He suggested that it might be Wallich’s Artemisia 
code da dg pee 2» a very obscure plant, which is enumerated in 
Hook. f. FT. . India, iii. 329, among the dubious species. 
aph of 
Comparison vii. Besser's description in his monogr: the 
section Ab Mc of Artemisia (in 3 iem Soc. Nat. Mosc., 
iii. (1834), 85)—which description was dra from Wallich’s 
up 
specimens—left hardly any doubt as to its identity with that 
species, and this was further conard y comparison with 
the originals in the Wallichian Herbarium at the Linnean Society 
by Mr. C. B. Clarke. Wallich got his specimens from the Madras 
Herbarium and from Heyne; but there is no evidence where they 
were collected. Wight mentions A. pallens in ies Contributions, 
p- 20, and he distributed specimens of it € No. 1463, with the 
note “ Wall. 3302." The specimen in Kew, which a label is 
attached bearing the name Artemisia pausa. Wall, in A. P. De 
Candolle's handwriting, ses rather smaller heads than Woodrow's 
examples, and is in a more advanced state, but otherwise agrees 
perfectly with them. ni looking through the collection of 
drawings at the Kew Herbarium I came across Roxburgh's 
unpublished figure of his Artemisia aibe and was at once 
struck by the great resemblance of it with Wight’s specimen. 
A closer examination of the drawing and of f Roxburgh's description 
CFI. ied iii, 418) of this plant convinced me of = ae of 
A. pallens and A. paniculata, Roxb. (not of Lam. of Rottl.). 
Roxburgh mentions the name in his earlier Hort. Bau: 61 (1814), 
indicating Persia as the native place, and a Mrs. Honeycomb as 
the donor. In do Flora Indica, edited by Carey, FM he 
says: “The ve place of this plant I cannot well asce 
It was miotas into the Botanic Gardens from the acai pe ts 
