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J. Last, A. Whyte, and K. C. Cameron shows how much has been done 
in. this region. Further north, in 1879, Mr. Joseph Thomson had 
gathered plants on the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau, and these reached 
Kew in 1880. Messrs, Carson, Nutt, Scott-Elliot, and Sir H 
Johnston have Beg collected on the plateau, and the first.named on a 
porre es ng the Kalungwesi River to Lake Mweru. 
* The collection made at Boroma, on pen north of the Zambezi, by the 
Rev. L. Menyharth, is only in part 
* As a guide to iex Ae Rie "wm region has been divided into four 
sections, as follow 
l. Shire High 
2: N Vine “Tanganyika plateau; some of the aene probably collected 
he German side of the boundary lin 
3. antice west, aee Major Serpa Pinto alone has collected. 
4. Upper Zambez 
“Tt must be epe that SH the plants collected by Buchanan were 
obtained i in the Shire Highlands; all by Carson and Nutt, unless other- 
se stated, from the region- near the south end of Lake Tanganyika ; i 
all from Serpa Pinto from the one dien near the River Ninda; 
all from Menyharth from Bor It was not thought netsi t 
repeat these localities with the collectore names.’ 
Drift Seeds from the Keeling Islands.—Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director 
of the Gardens and Forest Me rerien Straits his ele om Due presented 
a small collection of drift seeds from the ing or s Islands, 
e by Mr. G. C. Ross, the present leasing of om islands, Mie contains 
little that has not been collected before under the same conditions, but 
it may be worth while putting the names on record. They ave:— 
Carapa moluccensis, Lam., three or four species of Mucuna, Erythri 
indica ?, Cynometra cauli iflora, L j Gaalpsnio Bonducella, Fl, Fatala 
scandens s, Benth., Barringtonia, Tevnisolid Catappa, L., Hernandia, 
three or e species of Quercus, Aleurites triloba, Forst., and Cycas 
circinalis, L. 
Algæ in the Kew Herbarium.—The re-arrangement and cataloguing 
of the Algæ in the Kew Herbarium will greatly facilitate reference to 
this extensive and valuable collection. For the sake of conveniene ce the 
classification and nomenclature adopted are those of De Toni’s Sylloge 
lg 2, and in this book ‘hp numbering of all the species consecutively 
is of considerable advantage for cataloguing purposes 
An especial value and infarkt attach to the Kew collection of 
arse 
recent authorities. Foremost among Vim stands the type colleetion of 
Dawson Turner, mostly mounted on glass slips and sncinteda in envelopes 
labelled i in his own handwriting. To this must be adde - numerous 
type specimens of Robert Brown, Stackhouse, Greville, Harvey, and 
others of our own countrymen ; whilst the rich herbaria of the Hookers 
father and son, of Berkeley, and of Mrs. Griffiths furnish abundant - 
material c the older cone authorities, supplemented by the 
more recent exsiccate of Rabenho cum Mate, aud Nordstedt, 
and the itato of the veteran x G. A, 
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