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Juan Fernandez Sandal-wood.—The verification of the existence of a 
true sandal-wood in Juan Fernandez is recorded in the Bulletin for 
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Philippi, who described it from very imperfect material. Thanks to 
Mr. Séhrens, Kew now possesses excellent dried Tae of this 
most interesting plant (Santalum t Moin spei collected by the 
donor himself. Itis intended to give a figure and some fur rs particulars 
of it iu an early number of Hooker's Juss Ploktovsit ‘The following 
“Tt may be interesting to you to know that, after many bet o 
only one live tree of the och wood has been found; which y 
flower in the middle of April. am going again to the island best 
weak to endeavour to obtain cuttings of “the tree. The height of the 
tree to the first branch is 5*4 m. The nearly «urs acl branches pre- 
vented my measuring See total height, whic may about 8 m.; 
circumference 1*5 m. at 0*5 m. from the ground." 
Achilus siamensis.—In the present volume of the Bulletin, P. 39, a 
description is given of a new scitamineous Riza under the above name ; 
and at p. 122, in the notes on the plants figured in Baert Icones 
Plantarum it is hinted that the flowers e dia and figured were 
abnormal. xamination of some specimens of Cambodian origin, 
communicated by the late Dr. H. Baillon, vogéthos with a re-examination 
of the materials upon which Achilus was founded, leave no doubt that 
such was i thé case, and that the plaut in question, as ihe y Dr. 
Baillon, is a species of Globba, which is pis re-named Globba siam- 
ensis, Hemsl. How far the figures i in the Jco ; Pla: pi um, p. 2 
deviate from the normal condition of the padt c can only be deter ined 
by a complete series of specim It is possible, howevee, that a part 
of the apparent abnormality is fon to the imperfect and yonng condition 
of the M ceret Still, abnormalities exist. On thi: point Dr. 
Baillon wrot See 
* Nous avons aai de cette plante. Sur bien des fleurs je vois 
non seulement le tube que vous figurez, mais encore une corolle tres 
gréle, à tube jaune fort tenu. Le labelle ne manque toujours. Seule- 
ment, il est trés réduit en général." 
With this he sends the specimens referred to above, incidimus one 
perfect flower having a slender elongated corolla tube and the - fully 
developed labellum and lateral staminodia of a normal Globba. Whether 
the Cambodian plant is specifically the same as the one from Siam is 
uncertain, but there are differences which cau only be correctly apprs'sed 
by comparison with perfect specimens of the latter. 
Ferula alliacea.—Mr. F. W. Burbidge, FLS. Curator of Trinity 
College Botanic Gar den, Dublin, bas pr esented specimens, photographs, 
and water-colour sketches Ai am a plant cultivated in that garden 
under the above name. ar the very imperfect authentic speci- 
men of Ferula alliacea, i. „in the Herbarium goes, it agrees with 
the cultivated plant ; and Boissier's description of the foli: age confirms 
the view that this is its correct name. It is true that there are dis- 
crepancies between the description of the fruit aud what is actually 
.. found; but Ere may perhaps be aecounted for by the fact that sections 
: the f t present very different a at different ages, so 
dud arances t ag 
ET different indeed that i in the absence of direct confirmatory evidence one 
