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quantity was Cleome brachycarpa. ether only eleven species of 
flowering plants were collated. E of ined Erin from the neighbouring 
mainland on one or both coast 
Plants from Lake Tanganyika.—Mr. Alexander Carson has presented 
a mig collection of about 100 species of plants from this interesting 
ntry. It is estimated that 30 of the species are new to science, and 
descriptions of them will appear in an early number of the Kew Bulletin. 
ovelties belong chiefly to the orders Leguminose and Composite, 
but des are several other more remarkable plants ee kem — 
a grass (Tristachya) with a singularly bearded inflor ,8 
species of Gloriosa, several Asclepiads, and a fine gere es ef Tachia- 
denus, a genus of the Gentianee, previously only known to inhabit 
agascar. 
recently presented to Li ;— Professor C: S. Png 
resented a copy of his Forest Fone of Japan; Mrs. 
prese sented the Letters of Asa Gray; Mr. artin Conway, Dm ga 
by Lawes and Gilbert; from the Trustees of the British Museum a copy 
of Lister's Monograph of the M ycetozoa has been received; Dr. Gregorio 
Chil has presented De Viera's Diccionario de Historia Natural de las 
Islas Canarias ; from the aiithor E. Raoul -— two copies of Culture 
du Caféier ; from the authors, E. L. Rand and J. H. Redfield, the Flora 
of Mount Desert Island, Maine; from the author, T. R. Sim; Sketch 
and Check-list of the Flora of Kaffraria ; and from Professor J. W. H. 
Trail a copy of The Little English Flora has been received. 
Through the Bentham Trustees Kew has also been able to complete 
the sets of es publications of various foreign botanical societies. Amon 
the more in portant are the Verhandlungen der K. dre 
paa dara aaa Gesellschaft in Wien from 1871 to 1894 ; the Actes de la 
Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, from 1873 onward ; the Abhandlungen 
naturwissenschafilichen. Vereines zu Bren complete from us 
beginning; the Arbeiten des Botanischen Museums zu Hamburg, 
commencement; and the pr bications of the principal societies of 
Australia and New Zealand. 
Typhoon in Hong Kong.— Extract from letter from Blperitderdéit, 
Botanical Department, Eu. Kong, to Royal Gardens, Kew, dated 
Hong Kong, E. 16, 1 
* On the 6th of this month Hong — 3 was visited by a typhoon 
which was the ‘worst experieneed for exactly 20 years. Our 
1 were terri lin 1874, and now thev are again 
d to a sce our /arge trees have been either 
Ul dope o iud à Djs aise es UDE. ór VES MES 
