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Natal Plants.—Mr. J. Medley Wood, A.L.S., Curator of the Natal 
Botanic Garden, has presented a further small parcel of dried plants of 
great interest. 
Plants of the Milanji Hills.—M r. H. H. Johnston, C.B., Ser eete 
and Consul-General in British Central Africa, has transmitted a small 
collection of dried plants, made by Mr. J. McClounie, together with a 
few seeds. Most of the plants are the same as those collected by 
Mr. Whyte, and published in i Transactions of the Linnean Societ, 
(Botany, 2nd series, vol. ar> pt. 1, pp. 1-68, tt. 1-10), but they include 
a number of which Kew did not previously possess any Herbarium 
specimens, notably the cypress, Widdringtonia Whytei. There are 
also three or four apparently undescribed species, of which the material 
in some instances is insufficient for description. 
Flora of British Somali-land.—Miss Edith Cole and Mrs. Lort 
Phillips and party made a dese in this Seg last meee and 24 
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spring, and collected and dried ab 00. species of flow ing plants 
and a few ferns, which Wk have gorii media ted 6 The 
ces Taivasi was from Berbera to the Golis range of hills, t rise 
to a height of 5000 feet. In view of the comparatively recent partial 
botanical investigation of the island of Socotra, and Mr. Bent’s collec- 
tions from Southern Arabia, together with the fact that little is known 
of T flora of Somali-land, some highly interesting results are e 
fro e working-out of ‘these ladies’ collections. The Acanthaces, 
sepesially, are very strongly represented; there is a new fern; and the 
three orchids include an apparently new species of Epipactis, a genus 
not previously known to inhabit tropical Africa, though we believe 
Mr. Scott Elliot also collected a species in the Ruwenzori mountains, 
Miss Cole also collected and presented to Kew plants of s Esos of 
pn a Dracena, various bulbs, ii 20 packets of seed 
Anthocle ignis.—Mr. E. E. Galpin, of Queenstown, South 
Africa, whose description of this tree is given at p. 150, sends the 
following note respecting it :- 
This handsome tree is abundant in the Horo forest and Je a Md 
useful timber. The wood is white, soft, easily worked, and, I believe 
branch, and, bearing at their summit a cluster of magnificent leaves 
which are considerably larger than those borne by the mature trees, and 
give the tree a somewhat at palm-like a ce. Not having an oppor- 
tunity of visiting the locality during the flowering season, I am indebted 
to Mr. William Leyson, the courteous manager ot the Horo Concession, 
or a fine series of flowering and fruiting specimens, which were only to be 
got at by felling the trees bearing them. [A plant is growing at Kew]. 
Bre Plants from South Arabia.—Mr. J. Theodore Bent has 
returned from a second journey in Arabia Felix, bringing with him a 
on of dried plants, made by himself, and giosa Inner. to 
