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any end 
‘vours | rm fie me a um the experimental side of this etait 
z ; ot iit 
stultified by the care of a swimming bath, on which we have lost 9001. 
dur uring the past nine years or so during tik! it has existed. 
The transfer will be effected in about, two months time, and as T could 
not see any prospect of the place being worth holding, or of its RAT 
any opportunity for good work, I have accepted an- ap intment in the 
Forest Department, in charge of the nurseries and plantations it "Pott 
Cunynghame, by Do hne, which will be my address after September 1. 
The plantation is the most. extensive Fd in the Colony, extending at 
present to about 1000 acres, and it is proposed to extend this to two or 
h 
encouragement of tree planting, "ith young trees in large quantity. 
Also here are grown the vines 3mported by Government as Phylloxera 
proof or as stocks, and in various other ways the establishment is being 
made one of much public utility. The plantation is situated about 40 
miles from was further mland, and at an altitude of 2000 to 4000 feet, 
so I expect it ^ Poo verom more healthy for my family than King 
William' Town 
I enclose a ee of Microstephium, a white-leaved pant whieh 
may be of use along the south coast of England in bedding wo 
(Signed) Tos. RK. Sut. 
- CCOCXLVIL. — DECADES KEW ENSES. 
p rE a Novancit IN HERBARIO Hort: REon CONSERVATARUM. 
DECAS XIV. 
The following Decade is devoted E new species of ferns ees in 
the interesting collection made in Yunnan, Western China, by 
Hancock, F. i S., already referred to in the Kew. Bulletin (1895, 
page 45). 
ES Dawellis c t lcl Baker | Filices | : rhizomate 
viter repenti, paleis. basalibus lineari-subulatis sordide brunneis, 
siiis contiguis elongatis deri nudis castaneis, frondibus 
oblon toideis parvis decompos Bios viridibus modice firmis, 
meee lanceolatis ‘bail inferiori e neato-truncatis inferioribus haud 
eti tis ultimis linearibus uninerviis dissitis ereoto-Détefi, 
soris oblongis ad vel infra apicem segmentorum ultimorum costalibus, 
indusio transversaliter oblongo lato glabro membranaceo persistente. 
PUT asc ei crevices of rocks near Mongtse, alt. 6000 feet, 
each, 105 
cues 1-4 poll. longi. eget 2-4 poll longa, deorsum 11-2 
lata, Meses ultimis 1 lin 
etty little species, with iid habit of a Darea, perit: allied 
io Duvalle Clarka, Baker, which has also been found in Yunna 
