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Honours for Indian Botanists—Amongst the honours bestowed 
by the mie on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty's 
long reign, t will = pec an acceptable to the botanical 
world. Both “Sir Joseph Hooker and Lieut.-General Strachey 
were promoted to be Knights Gadd Cobetanene of the Star of 
India. This is one of the most restricted honours in the gift of 
pr ago the Eastern, the latter was occupied with the same 
the Western Himalayas. General Strachey’s botanical 
epini made at the time have never been surpassed or 
superseded, and supplied apan material for the preparation 
of the Flora of British India 
Botanical Magazine for June.—The plants figured are : Renanthera 
Storiei, Strobilanthes callosus, Veronica diosmeefolia, var. tri. sepala, 
Begonia Baumanni, and Lelia longipes. The Renanthera is 2 
magnificent species from the Philippine Islands. The drawing 
from a specimen communicated by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence. Strobilanthes callosus, native of Western India, was 
raised from seeds sent to Kew from the Saharanpur Botanical 
Gardens. The bracts AO a resinous substance which 2 an 
odour resembling Patchouli (see Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 98). 
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being fragrant. It is a native of Bolivia, and flowered at Kew in 
September, 1896. The Zelia is a small-flowered species from 
Brazil, ag: to L. crispilabia, The plant figured was sent to Kew 
rs. F. Sander & Uo., of St. Albans, in 1893, and flowered 
for the first time in July, 1896. 
Tropical African Plants.—A large and interesting Wirt ae 
Nyasaland, made by Mr. Alex. Whyte and others, bee 
presented by Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B., late H.M. De ae ei 
in British Central Africa. The country Mie comprises Zomba 
and its vieinity, Mt. Malosa, the Nyika Hange, and the country 
between Kondow ve and Karonga. An account of this journey has 
Gazette between October, 1896, — Febras ary, - 1897. The 
collection, which contains some 200 new species, is especially rich 
in Rubiacesw, and gives a very bm plote. idea of the vegetation of 
the region trave 
Prof. A. Engler, Director of the Botanical Gardens and Museum, 
Baumann and Stuhlman. A set of the eere colleeted by Zanker 
in aed D eroons, has — ‘contributed by Dr. E. Gilg. 
. W. Barbey has ilte nec of the plants collected, 
chiefly: in norther n Abymsinia, by Dr. G. Sehweinfurth, which are 
in course of vuiticnBon 5 in the Bulletin de l Herbier Boissier. 
