No. 445-] A'OTES AND LITERA TURE. 



Vol. 2, fascicle 5, of Coste's Flore descriptive ei illustr^e de la France, 

 de la Corse et des Contries liniitrophes, carries the work into Solanaceae. 



With volume 8, issued in April, 1903, the Rouy, Foucaud and 

 Camus Flore de France is brought to a conclusion, and correction 

 sheets for the earlier parts are added to this volume. 



An account of the flora of the Siindnbims, by Cr;iin. is published 

 as Vol. 2, no. 4, of the Records of the Botanica/ Survey o\ Incba : and 

 from the Government Printing Office at Calcutta is being issued a 

 Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain, and of the adjacent Siwalik and 

 Sub-Himalayan Tracts, by Duthie,— the first part covering Ranun- 

 culacea; to Cornaceas. 



The first fascicle of an illustrated quarto treatise on the botany of 

 the middle and lower Congo, by de Wildeman, has been issued as a 

 part of the Annales du Musk du Congo, of Brussels. 



Volume 35 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand 

 Institute, as is usual with that publication, contains a number of 

 important botanical articles. 



Recently issued parts of Engler's Das Pflanzeurach are the follow- 

 ing:— 12, Pfitzer, Orchidaces-Pleonandrae ; 13, Ruhland, Eriocaula- 

 ceai; 14, Grosser, Cistacea;; 15, Mez, Theophrastacea;. 



A paper on root, stem and leaf structure of Eschscholtzia ca/ifornica, 

 by Denniston and Werner, is contained in Vol. 6, no. 8. of Phar- 

 maceutical archives. 



Under the name Wittia Amazonica, Schumann describes and fig- 

 ures in the Monatsschrift fiir Kakteenkunde. of August, a new generic 

 type of cactus from Peru, of the aspect of Phyliocactus but with 

 small red flowers. 



The Pevista do Centra de Sciencias, Letras e Artes de Campinas^ of 

 July 31, contains a description and figure of Rhipsalis pilocarpa, by 

 Lofgren, and diagnoses and illustrations of a number of other new 

 Brazilian plants by Edwall. 



The Monatsschrift fiir Kakteenkunde. of September 15. contains 



Cereus gummosus, as it grows in Lower CaHtornia, is figured by 

 Schumann in the Monatsschrift fiir Kaktcenkundc. for July 15. 



The Gardeners^ Chronicle of August 8 may be called an Opuntia 

 number, with numerous illustrations of this genus as cultivated at 

 La Mortola. 



