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A great MÀ n arose in rectifying this, from the fact that woody 
plants ean rarely be identi with any accuracy till they flower oi 
fruit. The process of accurate (— in an extensive arboretum 
is necessarily, therefore, a very slow 
A further difficulty arises in a pëe arboretum from the fact that, 
though the specimens were all carefully labelled with their history and 
specimen was preserved of every species or variety planted 
out, with the name under which, and the source from which it was 
received. By reference to this Herbarium it was possible ina large 
number of cases to correct the nomenclatu 
By this means it has also been ponite: n draw up the list of which 
x Ha nen is a first instalment. It must still be regarded as in some 
—M— and — to correction. But it has m — to 
uce an immense ni r of “trade” and “ garden’ , and to 
bring the ems rr to vows nj like a standard. 
It is only necessary to add that in the present Hand- List 994 — 
with 640 varieties, have been enumerated and their names as f 
possible verified. ‘The number of synonyms given is 2,127. 
Flora of Mount Kinibalu—In the Kew Bulletin for October, 1892, 
p. 249, it was announced that Drs. H. A. and G. D. Hav iland had 
presented Kew with a valuable collection of dried plants, a ste by 
themselves on Mount Kinibalu, North Borneo. s a ma of fact, 
ee E should be explained, that although the two cousins b rsellod 
toget was Dr. G. D. Haviland alone who a the botanizin 
This fine Stadt has been worked out by Dr. O. Stapf, Assistant for 
India at the Herbarium, together with all prévibusly collected plants 
from the same region, published and unpublished, notably those collected 
seco: 
(Second Series, Botany) of iem raserer: of the Linnean Societ 
This is on of the m st important yar interesting contributions . to 
re endemic. The rela- 
tionship with the Australasian flora are especially interesting. 
Renewal of Heating Apparatus in Palm House——The Kew Report 
for 1877 yos an account of the remodelled apparatus for heating 
the Palm House which was put in during that year. Up till the winter 
of 1893—4 this worked in a completely satisfactory way. The temperature 
at that period was often severe, and the heating had to be pressed. 
this cause, as well as to a probable deterioration in the large iron 
the serious ** bursts" which took place o on two several occasions o a very 
critical time. By the skill and. unremitting energy of the West 
staff of the Royal Gardens, the fractured mains were patched up, 
the collection suffered no appreciable damage from cold. 
