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Pistia Stratiotes, Z.—N’Jaré. Aquatic plant growing on чән 
surface of water in large clumps. Native name Eye-piiy. Used 
the natives as an anodyne e м h. Leaves are soaked in cold wales 
If the plant comes in contact with the body it produces a sharp sting- 
ing sensation very like a s sawi sting, and the pain continues for some 
minutes. 
At N’Jaré there is a stream of fresh water about 50 yards wide in 
which this aquatic plant was ae Nothing else was seen here ; 
stream full of long dried up grass. Much the same trees seen here as 
before. In the fields small сиба plants cultivated. 
Lycopodium cernuum, ZL.—-Jarrol, Vintang Creek. In moist soil. 
Azolla pinnata, А. Br. 
Hexagonia polygramma, Mont. 
Polystictus funalis, Fries. 
CCXXI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The Seeretary of State for India in анн has selected, upon the 
nomination of Kew, Mr. John Horne Stephen, to be head gardener at 
the Lal Bagh Gardens, Bengalore, under the Danit of Mysore. 
Dr. Stapf’s valuable Persian herbarium has been acquired for the 
Royal Gardens by purchase. It contains about 1,100 species, and will 
ely augment the collections from that region, which was but poor 
represented at ты if we except Dr. Aitchison’ s collection from the 
extreme east of Pers 
From the Botenical Division of the United Step Agricultural 
Department, Washington, there has been received a 
Mexican plants, collected by Dr. Edward Palmer, and described and 
published by various American botanists. The Mexican flora seems 
indeed almost inothaoitible; Va fresh collection пошце in new 
iid. : 
т. F. M. Bailey, oh L.S., the active Colonial botanist of the Colony 
of of Queensland; and one of "the recent explorers of the Bellenden-Ker 
sent зма to Kew of about fifty of his proposed new 
From Dr. Engler, the Director of the Berlin Botanic , Kew 
received a parcel of mpi m chiefly from the collections made by 
German travellers in tropical Afri x 
