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adopted in preference Lamarck's name of the E. Indian, Malayan and Australian plant, with which 

 ours is absolutely identical, and to which it was referred by Swartz, in preference to the older Lin- 

 naoan name, A erosion, which was partly founded on this and partly on A. auritum, Sw. 



23. A. dimidiatum, Swartz. — Rootstock strong, erect or oblique, often fascicled, very densely 

 clothed with attenuated, serrated, reticulated dark scales ; stipites tufted, several, erect, 4-8 in, 1. dark 

 coloured ; rachis similar, channelled, fibrillose with scattered dark reticulated scales, or nearly naked ; 

 fronds pinnate, coriaceous, stiff, light or dark green, lanceolate-oblong, ^-1} ft. 1. 3-6 in. w., base 

 truncate, apex terminated in a deeply inciso-lobate elongated acuminated point ; pinnoe spreading, 

 glabrous, subdistant, 6-12 to a side, 2-3 in. 1. f-1 in. w. base stipitate and obliquely cuneate, the 

 inferior side much cut away in a straight line, the upper and outer deeply and irregularly incised 

 lobed and serrated, terminating generally in two major somewhat divergent linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 dentate or incised points, the upper of which is usually considerably the larger, veins flabellate, no 

 distinct midrib ; sori straight, variable in length, copious, flabellate, in. or morel., involucres 

 narrow, firm. — A. zannifolium Kze. 



Frequent in isolated situations on rocks near the banks of shady streams from 3,000-4,000ft. alt. ; 

 marked by the exceptionally shaped deeply incised and lacerated pinnte, all the incisions being directed 

 to the basal axis. The habit is erect, not pendent as in the preceding and following species. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



LIBRARY. 



Hooker's Icones Plantarum. Vol. II. Pt, III., October, 1893. [Bentham Trustees, through Kew.] 



Flora of British India, by Sir J. D. Hooker : Part XIX. [Kew.] 



Bulletiu Royal Gardens, Kew. August and September, 1893, Nos, 80-81. [Kew.] 



Bulletin Koyal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad. March, June, and September, 1893, Nos. 17 - 19 [Supt.] 



Bulletin Botanic Garden, Grenada. June, 1893, No 30. [Curator.] 



Bulletin Botanical Station, Barbados. No. 4. [Supt.] 



Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club. August - October, 1893. Nos. 8 - 10. [Editor.] 

 Bulletin De L'Herbier Boissier. Tome 1, 1893. ^^os. 7 - 9, [Conservateur.] 



Bulletin Department of Agriculture, Brisbane. March and May, 1893. Nos. 23 and 24. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Bulletin U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. No. 4. [Dept. of Agi-i.] 



Bulletin Kansas State Exp. Station. March, 1893. No. 38. [Prof. A. S. Hitchcock.] 



Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman. [Prof. Hitchcock.] 



Catalogue of the Anthophyte and Pteridophyte. [Prof. Hitchcock.] 



Key to Kansas Trees in their Winter condition. [Prof. Hitchcock.] 



The Woody Plants of Manhattan. [Prof. Hitchcock.] 



The opening of the Buds of some Woody Plants. [Prof. Hitchcock.] 



Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life, by F. M. Bailey. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Supplement to the Leeward Islands Gazette. Nos. 19 - 23. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Agri. Gazette of N. S. Wales. Vol. IV. Pts. 6 - 8. June - August, 1393. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Agri. Gazette of N. S. Wales. Index. Vol. Ill Jan. - Dec, 1892. [Dept of Agri.] 



Agri. Gazette and Planters' Journal, Barbados. August - October, 189i5. Nos. 8 - 10. [Editor.] 



Botanical Gazette. August - October, 1893. 8 - 10. [Editors.] 



Journal Roy. Agri. Soc. of B. Guiana. June, 1893. [Editor.] 



Sugar Journal and Tropical Cultivator, Queensland. July - Sept. 1893. Nos. 6-8. [Editor.] 



Sugar Cane. Sept. and Oct. 1893. Nos. 290 and 291. [Editor.] 



Planters' Monthly, Honolulu. July-Septr. 1893. Nos. 7-9. [Editor.] 



W. I. & Com. Advertiser. August-Octr. 1893. [Editor.] 



Chemist & Druggist. August Octr. 1893. Nos. 694-705. [Editor.] 



Report Bot. Gardens, B. Guiana, 1891-92. [Supt.] 



Eeport Bot. Gardens, Grenada, 1892. [Curator.] 



Eeport Missouri Bot. Garden. 1893. [Director.] 



Annual Progress Report. State Forest Dept. N. S. Wales. 1892. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Nova Scotia Provincial Govt. Crop Eeport. July 1893. [Dept. of Agri.] 



Return, British Museum. 1892-93. [Trustees.] 



Proc. Agri-Horti Soc. of Madras. April-June 1893. [Secretary.] 



Trans. Massachusetts Hort. Socy. 1892 Pt. II. [Secretary.] 



L'lllustration Horticole, Bruxelles, Tome xl. 8me Liv. 1893. [Conservateur.] 



Eevue Agricole. Mauritius. August 1893. No. 1. [Conservateur."! 



Times of Ceylon, July- Oct. 1893. Nos. 27-40. [Editor.] 



PLANTS. 



From Boyal Gardens, Kew. (Two Wardian cases.) 

 Acanthophoenix crinita. 

 " Acanthaceous climber." Sierra Leone 

 Aristolochia gigas var Sturtevantii. 

 Aristolochia Westlandi. 

 Camoensia maxima. 

 Cinnamomum sp. 

 Gardenia sp. 



" Handsome Shrub." Sierra Leone. 

 Hyophorbe amaricaulis. 

 " Large fruited plant." Rio de Janeiro. 

 Maniltoa gonimipar-a. 

 Melhania erythroxylon. 

 Nephrosperma Van Houtteanaj 

 Oncosperma tigillaria. 



Cassipourea sp. 



Coffea arabica. Var Mexicana. 

 Coffea sp. Sierra Leone. 

 Cordia monoica. 

 Dermatobotrys Saundersise. 

 Desmodium pulohellum. 

 Dilleuia sp. 

 Erythroxylon Coca. 

 Gardenia sp. 

 Godwinia gigas. 

 Txora incarnata. 

 Kigelia sp. 

 Leguminosfe, 

 Pandanus sp, 



