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When a work of this kind is once planned out, it is immaterial 
what part is first issued. I eventually decided to first issue the 
present volume (the diste devoted to the Petaloid Mono- 
cotyledons, as these groups of plants are of wider general interest. 
The printing of the volume commenced in July of last year, ee 
it is followed by any other volumes n largely depend on ies 
extent to which these difficulties are re iba 
“T have to express my oe assistance 
I have received from the following foreign botanis 
ons. W. Barbey, Herbier Boissier, Gen 
* Professor Bo "Jardin des Pla ntes, Paris, who has obligingly 
lent the specimens of Liliacee from the French Congo described 
by Mons. Henri Hua. 
“ Professor A. 7 dg imperat? ies the Royal Botanical Garden 
and Museums, Berlin, who communicated important collec- 
tions made by Gerihad aipe as wen asnumerous publications. 
* Professor Th. M. Fries, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Upsala, 
for the loan of the types of Swariz's orchids. 
* Dr. Hans Schinz, Professor of Botany, Zurich. 
“I have further to record my acknowledgments of the assistance 
given me by Mr. C. H. Wright in preparing the eg tees for 
the press and in checking the proofs, "€ to Mr. N. E. Brown for 
working out the geographical distributio 
* For the detailed topography the third edition of the “ Spezial- 
karte von Afrika," Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1893, has been 
ed. 
chiefly us age 
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“Kew, Aug. 1898.” - 
Records of the Botanical — of India.—Number 9 of this 
Re 
aH diti consists of a Report on the botany of the Chitral 
Relief Expedition, by Mr. J. F. Duthie, Director of the Botanie 
Department of Northern India he were collected by 
General Gatacre, C.B., nel Davidson, Lieutenant-Colonel 
e : Colo 
Hamilton, and Surgeon-Lieutenant Harriss. Nearly a menie 
kom are enumerated, belonging to 459 genera and 93 natural 
orders. The list has a special value, inasmuch as the altitudes are 
taréfuliy oboli It is gratifying to find so many officers of the 
army taking an active interest in botany. 
Number 10 is devoted to an interesting account of a botanical 
tour in Chamba and Kangra, by Mr. G. A. Gammie, supplemented 
by a list of the pisi bivo 
Sisal in the Turks FEREN —The dave] is an extract from 
the Annual Report on the Turks and Caicos Islands. (Colonial 
Reports, Annual, No. 230, p. 7.) :— 
The value of Sisal hemp exported was £2 039, or more than 
double the tigure of the previous year, and extraction and export 
are steadily continuing. At present prices the outlook for 
plantations where the growth has been ince is rather more 
encouraging than it has been for some tim 
