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The parts visited by Mr. Bent on this occasion were the 
about 250 in number, were collected at the latter place, in the Dhofar 
mountains, which rise to a height of about eet. Mr. Bent 
avoided collecting plants he recognised as having been collected by 
Mr. Lunt, who accompanied him on his visit to the Hadramaut country, 
which was a pity, because many of them are very rare, or at least only 
represented in herbaria by Lunt’s specimens. He also eschewed the 
common coast plants and weeds of cultivation, which was more to the 
purpose. ‘This collection is not so rich in novelties as the po ious one, 
nter no new generic type, though nearly a score e species 
be undescribed. It manifestly illustrates d westward 
extensions of types common to Baluchistan and Sind. very distinct 
on dyrum Stocksü, is a noteworthy example. It had 
wild cotton, 
prp only been found in Sind, and some authorities have regarded 
i of the wild progenitors of cultivated cotton. Merbat i is near 
the Shiny of the Arabian Frankincense country, and Mr. Bent obtained 
good specimens of the true plant, Boswellia Carteri, Birdw., as well as 
one of the M rrhs, Balsamodendron Opobalsamum. Mr. Bent has 
exhibited a selection x his. plants both at the Royal Geographical 
Society and Royal Society, 
The Flora of the Solomon Islands,—Since the preceding paper 
(p. 132) on Mr. Comins's plants was pat into type, Kew has en 
through Rasidi Wharton, C.B., Hydrographer to the . 
another small collection of dried plants and a box of orchids foot this 
interestin wi of islands, , made by the fiiis i of H. M. S.« Penguin, " 
Comman i. Eo DAMM, 
including two species of Beyonia, a very handsome Eugenia, a Myri » 
tica, some Scitamineæ, and orchids. The curious Lepinia taitensis 
was found in the island o Nek Georgia, where indeed most of the 
plants appear to have been collected ; and the seeds appear to be good. 
There are also seeds of (Ge Guppyi, Hemsl, a singular 
member of the Seitaminez figured in the Annals o any, v. t. 27. 
But the most important part of the collection consists of leaves, female 
inflorescence, and seeds of the Sararanga sinuosa, Hems!., (Pan- 
danacem) described and figured from very imperfect materials in the 
Journal of the Linnean Society, XXX., p. 216. t. 11. Ahe are also 
pho showing the habit of the tree, and Lie A BE 
Somerville and S. C. Weigall communicated the following daea 
and particulars of this ee distinct screw-pine 
“In New Geo eorgia, Soloi — it was iud growing exclusively 
at the estuaries of rivers, never in very large quantities, and ly 
in clumps of three or fo The natives say that it does not grow on 
the hill tops, but only in such positions as we found it, close to the 
water ; and tha t it is not very common anywhere. Their name for it 
on the Northern coast is * Ndali,’ while at Rubiana, on the Southern 
side of New Georgia, it is called * Pate 
It is said by the natives of Savo Island to exist there also. 
*'lhe average height of a full grown tree is 60 feet, including the 
branches, which radiate out from the stem at the top of the trunk only, 
to a length of about 10 feet. 
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