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Botany of the Pileomayo Expedition.—After considerable delay, an 
account has appeared (Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanieal 
Society of Edinburgh, xx. 1894, pp. 44-78) of the plants collected by 
Mr. J. Graham Kerr, naturalist to the unfortunate Argentine Expedi- 
tion of 1890-91, to the Rio Pilcomayo, in the Grand Chaco of South 
localities 
names, and other particulars. Taken altogether it is a valuable 
contribution to our knowledge of an interesting flora. 
entific Reports of Mr. Conway’s Karakoram Expedition.—These, 
together with maps on a large scale showing the route, have been issued 
a separate volume. The botany consists of a systematic list of the 
plants, with the localities and altitudes at  WER they were collected. 
reported (Kew Bulletin, A 145) the collection of dried 
plants was presented by Mr. Conway to Kew. Only two were pre- 
viously undescribed ; but the list is valuable, first as giving a good idea 
of the flora of a glacial region, and secondly for the careful manner in 
e plants have been localised. 
Koorders’ Malayan Plants.— Mr. S. H. Koorders, associated with Dr. 
Th. Valeton, has lately published an important contribution to our 
knowledge of the trees of Java , based on extensive investigations and 
collections made on the spot. The main part of the work is in the 
age, but it also eontains Latin descriptions of all the species. 
lt is issued under the Latin title of Additamenta ad Co ognitionem 
lore Javanice. Pars 1. Arbores. A good many new species are 
described, and pr nde the kindness of Dr. M. Treub, Director of the 
Bui arden, Ke as received a set of Koorders’ 
Lane os ‘ectheatially Siml specimens of many of these 
Fiji.—4A collection of gen from Fiji has been received from Mr. D. 
Yeoward, Curator of the Botanical Station there. Besides native plants, 
the collection includes m iaf specimens of introduced plants. A species 
of Vavea has proved to be new, and a description of it has been drawn 
up for the Bulletin. It forms a large tree, with leaves nearly a foot 
long and clusters of numerous white flowers. One plant, called by the 
— Lntu Lutu ni Vicau, is an apparently undescribed species of 
acaranga, remarkable for its very obliquely peltate lanceolate cm 
nearly 2 feet long. 
