315 
The same number gives (page 137) a siking statement as to the 
contrast between home and foreign freig 
“As an illustration of the excessive coo which agriculture in 
this country has to submit to, it may be mentioned that it costs less 
to bring agricultural seeds from Chicago to London, a distance of about 
4,000 miles (of which 1,000 are by rail and » oe by steamer) than it 
i ithi i ope also, th 
difference though less is still excessive, the ioni vid from the North 
of France to Londón being less than from the home counties, and from 
the South of France than “frou Yorkshire." 
CCCCXCII.—DECADES KEWENSES. 
PLANTARUM NOVARUM IN HERBARIO Horti Reem CONSERVATARUM. 
DECAS XXII. 
The plants of this decade are from a collection made by Dr. Leo 
Hirsch, in the summer of 1893, in the country of Hadramaut, in Southern 
ra were placed at our disposal for publication by Dr. 
Schweinfurth, with the Nec idea st their being compared with the 
collections made in the same r egion by J. 'Theodore Bent, Esq. ^ and 
Mr. "rei which are ionis iod "ie in the Bulletin p 1894, pp 
343, and 1895, p. 158 and pp. 180-186. Dr. Hirsch landed at Maal 
ascended the mountains of the interior to a height of over 
and returned to the same . A short account of his expedition will 
be found in Anr 8 Mittheilungen, 1894, p. 30. The collection 
contained about 150 species, of which wae three were amongst the 
novelties dinsifirod by Messrs. Bent and Lun 
211. Dombeya arabica, Baker TRE. . fruticosa, ramulis 
dense stellato-pubescent ibus, foliis breviter peliolatis cordato-orbiculari- 
bas obtusis "sinuatis heprean dentatis prope marginem crispatis 
racteis ovatis pilosis, pedicellis flore longioribus, sepalis ovatis dense 
pubescentibus, petalis obovatis coccineis calyce paulo oribus, 
staminibus 15 tubo filamentarum brevissimo staminodiis lanceolatis 
petaloideis coccineis, stylo obsoleto, 
Habitat.—Hadramaut, Southern Arabia, Hirsch, 170. 
m 3-4 poll. longa et lata. Calyx 3 lin. longus. Petala 4 lin. 
lon 
a distinct in its very short staminal tube, staminodia just like the 
petals in colour and texture, and obsolete style. 
212. Thamnosma Hirschii, Schwf. [Rutacez] ; herbacea, perennis, 
glabra, in partibus orinibüs glandulis subimmersis copiosis rutaceis 
flavo-viridibus predita, foliis remotis sessilibus linearibus marginibus 
revolutis, floribus laxe racemosis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus, calycis 
lobis ovatis obtusis, petalis oblongis ealyce 3—4-plo longioribus, stami- 
