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Tibetan Plants —Two additional collections of dried plants have been 
received from Tibet, which is becoming more and more the field of 
active exploration. One of these was made by Captain Wellby and 
Lieutenant Malcolm during a journey across Tibet between 35° and 36° 
N. The other was obtained by Captain Deasy and Mr. Arnold Pike 
when trav elling i in Western Tibet. Both collections exhibit the stunted 
vegetation so characteristic. of this flora. Selections from both have 
been exhibited at the Ko toyal Society's '"Convérsnzione, where they 
attracted much attention. 
rimula farinosa in the Andes,—The isolated eei of a species of 
aula in Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, whether 
regarded as specifically distinct from the northern P. Rak or not, 
has been commented upon by most ess M botanieal geography. Sir 
Joseph Hooker (Flora AR TUrofted, ii. 37) specially dudes to the 
absence of the genus, so far as then TÉ pon all parts of the Andes, 
latitude than 39°. Since then two species have been discovered in the 
mountains of Arizona and New Mexico, and now Prof. F. Philippi, the 
director of the botanic garden at Santiag go, has sent specimens of the 
South American species from two distant di in the Chilian Andes. 
One is from the Cordillera del Rio Manso in 41? 30' P lat., and the 
other from the Cordillera de Ani t in 39? S. But Kew 
previously possessed a specimen of Primula PF from ib 
though the fact seems not to have been recorded before. This spec 
was collected bv Mr. Pearce, a traveller in the service of bem Tue ames 
Veitch & Co., in the Cordillera de Ranco, prias between the other 
two xp and was presented to Kew in 1884 
The South American specimens represent both large and small- 
flowered CUR i one of those from the Andes having flowers nearly 
or quite an inch in diameter. 
Ceylon Flora.—The untimely death of Dr, Trimen unhappily es deem 
admirable pun to the Flora of Ceylon in an unfinishe e. 
Two volumes still remain to be written in ion to the three Pase 
published. "Sir Joseph Hooker has most generously offered to undertake 
the preparation of these, and his offer has been accepted by the Govern- 
ment of Ceylon. The necessary pied and specimens have already 
been received at Kew from the Royal Botanie Garden, Peradeniya. 
More than thirty years ago Sir Joseph Hooker assisted Dr. Thwaites 
in his Enumeratio Plantarum Ze ylanie. 
Aids to Colonial Development.—The following is an extract from an 
article which appeared in the Journal des Débats for March 20 last, and. : 
of which a translation Seer in the United States Sa Reports. 
for May (pp. 162-163) :— 
« A nation that desires to form colonies will find that r r O of 
the p is hardly the beginning of her task. ‘The resources of the 
country must be studied and appraised ; the igeiWiltarel’ “aiid geological 
map of the que must be prepared ; the soil must be analyzed, native 
