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bright green, pinnae numerous, opposite, spreading, distant, 1-1J ft. I. 

 3-4 in. w. with a distinct terminal one like the lateral, sessile and cor- 

 date overlapping the strong rachis, apex acuminate or cuspidate, repand, 

 scariose and crenulate- edged, vein running in close, parallel lines from 

 the costae two-thirds to the margin, and there freely anastomosing and 

 forming a network of elongated areolae, with an exterior transverse 

 intra-marginal vein ; sori linear, on the simple portions of the veins ; 

 involucres narrow, membranous — Plum Fil. 106. Hook; Fil. Exot. t. 63. 



Infrequent in moist districts near streams in woods and well shaded 

 places among the valleys of the lower mountains at from 1,000-2,000 

 ft. alt, A majestic plant, the largest of the Asplenia, and hardly in- 

 ferior in its stately proportions to Hemitelia horrid a. — Plumier first 

 gathered it. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



Library. 



Hooker's Icones Plan tarum, \ol. IV. Pt. 1. May, 1894. [Bentham Trus- 

 tees, through Kew.] 

 Flora of British India, by Sir J. D. Hooker, Part XX. [India Office.] 



« « " " [Kew.] 



Bulletin Royal Gardens, Kew. No. 89. May, 1894. [Kew.] 

 Bulletin Exp. Farm Canada. No. 20. Feby. 1894. [Kew.] 

 Bulletin Agri. Exp. Sta., California. No. 104. April, 1894. [Director.] 

 Bulletin Sugar Exp. Station, New Orleans. Nos. 24-26 [Director.] 

 Bulletin Kolonial Museum, Haarlem. March 1894. [Director.] 

 Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club. No. 5. May 1894. [Editor.] 

 Bulletin Trinidad Field Nat. Club. No. 1. April 1894. [Secy.] 

 Bulletin de L'Herbier Boissier. Tome II. 1894. Nos. 4 and 5. [Conser- 

 vateur.] 



Agri. Gazette of N. S. Wales. Vol. V„ Pt, 3. Mar. 1894. [Dep. of Agri.] 

 Agri. Gazette Barbados. No. 5. May 1894. [Editor.] 



Agri. Journal, Cape Colony. Nos. 7-9. April-May 1894. [Dep. of Agri.] 

 Sugar Journal, Queensland. Nos. 2 and 3. March and April L894. [Editor.] 

 Sugar Cane. Nos. 298-299. May and June 1894. [Editor.] 

 Planters' Monthly, Honolulu. No. 5. May 1894. [Editor.] 

 Botanical Gazette. No. 5. May 1894. [Editor.] 

 Report Dept. of Agri. N. S. Wales. 1893. [Dept, of Agri.] 

 Report Exp. Farms, Canada. [Dept. of Agri.] 

 Report Bot. Gardens, Trinidad. 1893. [Supt.] 

 Report Trade and Crop Returns, Trinidad. 1893. [J H. Hart.] 

 Report Bot. Gardens, Straits Settlements 1893. [Director.] 

 Report Bot. Station, Gold Coast, 1893. [Col. Secy.] 

 Report Bot. Station, St. Vincent. Oct.-Dec. 1893. [Curator.] 

 Science Gossip. Nos. 3 & 4. May & June, 1894, [Editor.] 

 Chemist & Druggist. Nos. 732-737. April & May. [Editor.] 

 W. I. & Com. Advertiser. May & June 1894. [Editor,] 

 Times of Ceylon. Nos. 16-20. April & May, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Contributions from Gray Herb of Harv. University. [B. L. Robinson.] 

 Revue Agricole, Mauritius. No. 4. April, 1894. [Conservateur.] 

 Anales Instituto Ficico Geografico Nacional, Costa Rica. Tome IV. 1894. 

 [Director.] 



Anales Junta Central de Aclimatacion, Venezuela. Nos. 1-6. Jan.-June f 

 1894. [Administrador.] 



Seeds. 



From Royal Gardens, Kew — 



Seeds of Plants from Lagos : — 

 Aloe, sp. 



Andrographis paniculata 



