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more is known at Kew of its history. Altogether there are Me 
1,250 figures, Stat of them beautifully and accurately executed. In 
vigour of style they resemble Schaeffer’s Jcones Fungorum, though 
there is no evidence that they served as originals. Indeed that work 
was not published till 1762-1774. 
Robert, Basse, and de Chastillon’s Recueil de Plantes.—Kew has 
acquired by rchase a very fine copy of this magnificent collection of 
engravings of plants. Some copies were issued without a title- "page, but 
Pritzel (Thesaurus Literature Botanice, ed. 1. n. 8362) says “In 
exemplari bibliothece Sherardiane Oxonii esis tituli adsunt: 
Estampes pour servir à l Histoire des Plantes. Partie i. et ii. Paris, de 
de l'imprimerie royale, 1701. He also gives the following title: Recueil 
de Plantes tenet et gravées par Ordre du Roi Louis XIV., Paris, 
1701. size he gives as 16 by 12 inches, but that is the size of the 
plates employed for the engravings. The Kew copy is 25} by 19 inches. 
Pritzel adds: * Bruuet de hac collectione monet: Recueil parfaitement 
éxecuté a Y on recherche encore un peu les anciennes épreuves. 
L'ouvrage parut d'abord sans dd mais Monsieur Buisson a fait 
imprimer, vers 1780, un frontispice avec des éclaircissements sur ce 
recueil et une table des 319 ins ; le tout formant 20 foll" 
The engravings are fags artistically but botanically good, an and what 
was rare at that date, the figures are supplemen “ge a enlarged analyses 
of the Hawen and as pee of the seed and g seedlings. The 
designations are the wong or ut of = pe Saporo: by the 
writers of the period, such as Bauhin and Thunberg, who are cited in 
each case, and the arrangement is elphahetical based on the first word. 
Ipecacuanha in Southern India.—The Kew Bulletin for 1888 
contained (pp. 123-128) an account of the various attempts which have 
been made to establish tbe cultivation of the plant producing this 
valuable drug in the East Indies. The annual report of Mr. M. A. 
Plantations to the MÀ Fasten records the result recently 
obtained in Southern India 
* The following interesti report has been sent by Mr. J. R. Malcolm 
of the Vallera Mullays :— 
* In re ply to yours of the 25th, I am sorry that I cannot oblige you 
with sny ipecacua anha seed. the plants were shoe getting on 
cut off the roots, obtaining 20 Ib. dried only. I re taitted what was 
left, under light artificial shade, and they seem to like it, as all are 
throwing shoots. The small parcel of root was sent home, and it will 
interest you to know that it was highly reported on. Messrs. Pss and 
Co. say * The little lot we sold for you n (Messrs. Parry an d Co.) was 
very fine picked root, nice colour, flavour, &c.’ It really was not picked 
atall. I gathered everything I could find in the ground. - It sold for 
55. 4d. per lb., the best eo fetching 5s. 6d. per lb. 
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