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Rubus lasiostylus, a very pretty Chinese Latiae eat one xe Dr. A. 
Henry's numerous discoveries and introd à 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum.— The fourth and concluding part of the 
fourth volume of the fourth series—plates 2276 to 2400, has been 
published. Mascarenhasia utilis (Apocynacee), a native of Madagascar, 
is from the collection of the Rev. R. Baron, who states that "E is one of 
the important plants from which india-rubber is obtained. Mus sendopsis 
beccariana, is a Malayan tree allied to the American Calycophyllum. 
This is the second genus of this affinity recently figured in this work. 
The other is Wire At A pont 1823), a native ‘of China. Several 
interesting grasses are figured, among them Cyathopus, a me genus 
from eo Didissandra 1wyiper, Rhododendron Hancockii, Bran- 
disia racemosa, Jasminum primulinum and Codonopsis convolvulacea 
are Chinese plants, all of an ornamental character. They were coliected 
in Eastern Yunnan by Mr. W. Hancock, F.L.S. From the Rev. 
R. B. Comins's last Veg Islands’ collection there are the ere od 
Tabernamontilia queni a, Stemonurus megacarpus, and Oxymitr 
macrantha, am h were ae scrTbell in the Bulletin for Taie JAY 
‘Argoste ncinnum is à miniature one-flowered plant belonging to 
the Rubiacez, eollented in Northern Siam by Mr. Smiles of the Royal 
Survey Department. 
Hand-List of Ferns and Fern Allies.— This hand- list was issued in 
April last. "4 Mania: account is Mae in the Preface of the fern 
are fully described, and their synoncmy and geographical distribution 
worked out, with sacre illustratiótió by Mr. ems Fitch. Of this, 
the first volume appeared in 1846, and the las pree s ames 
werde F.R.S., now Keeper of the Herbarium, in 1868, and 
a ooond edition was brought out in 1874. Since that date many 
also published in the Annals of Botany (1891) a summary of new 
ferns diseovered or deseribed since 1874. The type specimens from 
