Asia Minor. — A collection oi three hundred species made by Sintenis 

 in the district of Kastamuni, or Castambul, Asia Minor,' has been 

 purchased for the Herbarium. 



Japan. — Through Dr. Kin... Miyahe. Kcw has received from the 

 Agricultural College of Sapporo, Japan, the first part of a set of the 

 plants of the Island of Yeso. It contains 237 species, and 1 1 s tl 

 orders Ranvnarfacea- to Rosacetr. And through Professor Matsumura 

 Jinzo. Director of the Botanic Garden, Imperial University, Tokio, the 

 Herbarium has been enriched by a collection of some 1,350 species, 

 including many not previously represented at Kew. This collection is 

 valuable, apart from its numerical extent, inasmuch as it contains 

 authentic specimens of novelties published by Professor M. Jinzo 

 himself. 



Tropical Africa. — From the expedition undertaken by Sir Gilbert 



and Protectorate, Kew has received two consignment- of dried plant- 

 gathered by Dr. Rowland, the medical officer to the expedition. In 

 all there are about 400 species, in excellent condition, and many of them 

 of great interest. Mr. Millcn. the Curator ot the Botanical Station at 

 Lagos, has also sent a small collection. Further Lieut. Charles S. 

 Smith, U.X., Consul at Zanzibar, engaged on the Anglo-German 

 Demarcation Commission, has forwarded a parcel of about 50 species, 

 chiefly from Kilimanjaro. 



South Africa.— From South Africa the Herbarium 

 well'th and fourteenth centuries of Bolus and MacOw 

 Jormalc Austro-Africarnim," and Mr. Medley Woe 



America — Kew has purchased a set of Mr. C. < .. Pringle's Mexican 

 Plants, collected in 1892, and also the first three centuries of Mr. L. D. 

 Heed's Virginian plants. Both of these gentlemen are excellent collec- 

 tors, and Mr. Pringle's Mexican plants include novelties from the 

 apparently inexhaustible Mexican flora. Dr. A. Engler, the Director 

 of the Berlin Botanic Garden, has presented a parcel of about 100 

 species of Brazilian Melastomacea;, many of them authenticated types 



Australasia.— From time to time Sir V. von Mueller, K CM < ... 

 ,,-',.„. Mr W Cl-uso, K.K.S., has 

 presented specimens of about 200 New Zealand cellular cryptogams : 

 and Mr. I). Petrie, F.L.S., a small but very interesting collection 

 of flowering plant- from the same country, several of them new species 

 discovered and described by the donor. 



