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Hence the monies. for preventing the growth of such weeds in fields 
"x gu e banks 
rs. 
. That the niine of ple y i voka by the 
presence of acids, and checked by the presence of alkalies, agreeing in 
this respect with the fungi rather than with bacteria. 
4. For the purpose of sterilising infected soil, experiments prove 
that either a dressing of lime or a manure containin ng potash salts is 
effective, the last being most valuable, as it not E oe destroys the germs 
in the soil but also arrests the disease in seed plants, and at the 
same time supplies one of the ingredients oe for the healthy 
growth of turnips. 
CCCCLXI.—FLORA OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 
The novelties of several small collections, from the above-named 
K hin the last fi 
island to Kew within the ew years, have already been 
ublished in the Annals of ny, v. (1891), pp. 501—508, pl. 27 ; 
vi. (1892), pp. 203-210, pl. 11-14; Jour n Society, 
RO P. 163-165 and 211-217, pl. 9-11; Hooker's cones 
Plantarum, Ath series, iii. ee): pl. 2207, 2247, and 2248 ; and Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, pp pp. 211-215 
In March of the present year a further VI edes E was received from 
the Rev. R. B. Comins, including also a few es from Torres Islands 
and Banks Islands, situated between the Salomon group and the New 
Hebrides 
Unfortunately Mr. Comins’s opportunities for collecting and preserving 
plants are as, slight; yet in this small collection of about 30 species 
a doz main unidentified with previously described species. The 
miatertat ofi some is, however, insufficient for description. Omitting ie: 
very common plants of no special interest, the following is an enumeration 
of the last consignment :— 
DiLLENIACEX. 
Dillenia ?— The —Ó are wanting, and the anthers have been eatem 
by insects, so that it js uncertain whether it belongs to this genus or 
Wormia ; but from the foliage and calyx it appears to be an undescribed 
tree. 
Habitat.— Florida, Solomon Islands, Comins, 291. 
Mr. Comins notes that the natives declare that this tree, which occurs 
in the forests and attains a height of 100 feet, never ripens seeds, and 
ean only be propagated by cuttings. 
ANONACEX. 
Oxymitra (§ Goniothalamus) macrantha, Z/emsi.; arbor usque ad 
90 ped." alta, apice tantum ramosa (Comins), ra ramulis primum parce 
 ferrugineo-puberulis, internodiis brevibus, foliis mediocribus petiolatis 
vix r EA paap Sears apice obtusis vel rotundatis giabrescentibus, 
venis primariis lateralibus utrinque cireiter 12 curvatis prope marginem 
— S floribu en n qon uctis (Comins) breviter 
