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and fauna of Round Island, near Mauritius. rins mum he himself 
p: ublished very little he contributed largely in the way of notes 
specimens to several of our Colonial je and it was due 
tu his support that 2 approval and aid of the legislatures of 
Flora Capensis, He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 
in 1864, 
Botanical Magazine for November.—As/ragalus ponticus is onè 
of the numerous Se eu o ie of the genus in Asia Minor, 
whence seeds were o Kew by Edward Whittall, Esq., of 
Smyrna. Its eos habit, and globose or ovoid, almost sessile 
heads of yellow flowers in the axils of the long leaves are 
characters which it has in common with A. narbonensis, to which, 
in other respects also, it is closely allied. Kniphofia longicollis 
is a new species from Natal, and is one of the recent introductions 
of Mr. Max Leientlin, of Baden, The drawing was made from a 
Thomas Cooper, from whom the Kew plant was purchased. It 
is a decidedly ornamental species, having leaves freely spotted 
with white and capitate racemes of bright orange-yellow flowers, 
hies with green. In Podotheca, chr betta: is represented a 
singular genus of Composite, which consists of six species, all 
confined to Western Australia. P. chr Saintes is an erect, slender 
annual, each branch being terminated by a lax head of bright 
ye ellow fl aby The Kew plants were raised from seeds com- 
municated by Miss Bunbury, of Picton, Western Australia. 
Calliandra Ainsi is a distinct and handsome new species from 
exico. Though allied to C. Aematocephala it is easily dis- 
tinguished by the pubescence on the leaves and the much smaller 
number of leaflets. The plant drawn was received from the 
gardens of the Royal Botanie Society, Regent's Park, in 1888 
Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon.—The first Mie of this 
addition to the series of Colonial Floras was announced in the 
Kew Bulletin for 1894, p. 34, and the death of the lamented gina 
in that for 1896, p. 219. It was further announced (1897, p. 208) 
Ranunculacex to Balanophoraces» ; the arrangement followed 
being that of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. He 
also left the manuscript of the Euphorbiaces nearly ready for 
ress. In a comparatively short period, considering his advanced 
age, Sir Joseph Hooker has completed the fourth volume. This 
comprises the orders Euphorbiacew to Naiadacem. With it are 
issued Pub oe additional quaro coloured plates, making one 
ndr n all and completing this part of the work. It is 
eden x note that no Conifers inhabit the island ; that 
