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The detailed numbers for 1894 are given below :— 
S Mr Notit. Numbers. Month. Numbers. 
January - - - 18,184 Brought forward - | 785,009 
February - - - 32,992 July ^ - 185,427 
March - - 218,514 August - - - | .211,192 
April  - E E - 139,741 September - - 101,550 
May - - š 229,161 October - - - 42,228 
June - - - - 146,417 November - - 31,738 
December  - - - 20,444 
Carried forward - 785,009 . ———-—— 
Total - - | 1,377,588 
's Botanical Magazine.—This illustrated work, which 
reached the 107th year of its existence and its one hundred ‘and twentieth 
yell is, and long has been, a permanent record of a election of the 
ornamental and useful plants flowering at Kew during the year. 
Fifty out of 60 of the figures cpm in last year's volume were 
drawn from plants that flowered at Kew 
Hookers “Icones Plantarum."—The second part of the fourth 
volume of the current series of this publieation contains figures of a 
number of new tropical African Apocynacee ; a new “Jal 
Pilocarpus microphyllus ; Stenomeris borneensis, the third species of 
this somewhat anomalous genus ; Euphorbia Abbottii, a distinct species 
ieee E Aldabra in the Indian Ocean; Rhynchocalyz, a new 
genus of Lythrariec, and various other interesting plants. 
Arenga Engleri, Becc.—This palm, described by Signor Beccari in 
Malesia, iii. p. 184, was discovered by the late Mr. R. Oldham in 
j has 
gol toothed at the apex. The axis of eee 
and triangular at the apex, and more or less 
" -furfuraceous scales. The much- ludin 
spadices are borne amongst the leaves and are about a foot long. The 
fruit is subglobose, about 8 lines in diameter and 3-celled, bearing in 
euch cell a single seed, convex on the dorsal side, with an obt tuse angle 
on the ventral side and havin g on its 
the minute embryo is situated in the centre of the dorsal side. Mr. C. 
Ford, who has introduced the plant into the Hong Kong Botanic 
for 
it, the whole country about Keelung in: scented with 
it in the seni of June. 
