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Baker, F.R.S., the keeper of the Herbariam and Library of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. It contains the continuation of the Amaryllidee and 
part of the Lilia ace@, to the completion of which the whole of the third 
and concluding part will be devoted. 
Most of the genera described include species of great horticultural 
IU Gasteria, Aloe, and Haworthia, which belong to “the 
Two o points Suge: i some remark. A cH number of species 
appear never to e been collected but on Many are still only 
are unrepresented in herbaria. It is difficult, however, to believe that 
any are really extinct. The fact is more probably accounted for by the 
extremely local limitation of species in South Africa, which is hardly 
paralleled in this respect by any other flora in € wor 
In case of succulent genera such as iur Haworthia, her- 
barium specimens are mirena deficient. But . Baker has ha 
a 
sulting living specimens is of peculiar advantage in describing the 
Petaloid Monocotyledons. But in the case of the succulent genera, it 
may be safely said that, without it, the task would not be possible at all. 
Unfortunately when the majority of these plants were introduced, little 
importance was attached to their exact localisation ; and this, therefore, 
for the present, must remain for the most p undetermined. 
gai . Brown, and to 
. Wright, assistants in the Satanic; for their valuable 
assistance in the work of passing the sheets through the press. And 
must remedy an omission in expressing my thanks to the well-known 
th African botanist, Mr. H. Bolus, F.L.S., for great assistance in 
revising the very intricate topography. 
WORST D: 
Kew, August 1896. 
Hand-List of Trees and Shrubs. Part ii—An account of the purpose 
and scope of this publication was given in the notice of Part I. in the 
Kew Bulletin for 1895 (pp. 40-42). The present part (Gamopetale to 
Monocotyledons) completes the catalogue of the nei plants (excluding 
conifers, which form a separate hand-list), grown in the open air in the 
iim of the Royal Gardens. In the nomenclature of hardy bamboos 
w has to acknowledge the kind assistance of A. B. Freeman-Mitford, 
Esq. ., C.B., of Batsford Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, who has made them a 
special stu udy. Anyone interested in the cultivation of these beautiful 
shrubs cannot do better than ac Mr. Freeman-Mitford's admirable 
volume, “ The Bamboo Garden 
