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Caricaceae Africanae. By I. Urban fpp. 115-117 ; with 



figure). — The author establishes a new genus from tropical Africa, 

 Cijlicomorpha, intermediate between Carica and Jacaratia, 



Graminese Africanae, By R. Pilger (pp. 118-126.)— A few new 

 species and varieties from east and west tropical Africa.— .1. B. B. 



Flora, Contributions towards the Study of the Portuguese. 



By J. de Mariz {Bol. Soc. Brot. xvii. p. 159, 1901). — Embodies an 

 exhaustive research on the synonymy and distribution — interspersed with 

 critical notes — of all Portuguese plants belonging to the orders Convol- 

 vulace^e, Cuscutete, and Solanacece. — G. M. 



Flora of Central China (conclusion). By L. Diels {Eiuji. Bot. 

 Jalirh. xxix. pp. 577-659; 12 2 1901). — This so-called flora, which 

 is concluded in this number, is a list of plants compiled from existing 

 literature, with the intercalation of new species contained in the Berlin 

 Herbarium. It is neither critical nor exhaustive. — .1. B. B. 



Flora of Eastern Asia, New Species of the (Manchuria and North- 

 ern Korea), By V. L. Komarov {Act. Hurt. Pet. tom. xviii. fas. iii.). — 

 Forty new species of plants and shrubs are described. Ten of them 

 belong to the genus Carex. Of the rest some are likely to be valuable 

 acquisitions to horticulture. The following three seem especially note- 

 worthy, viz. : — 



Prinuda saxatilis, allied to P. cortusoides, flowering in June 

 (Northern Korea). 



Clematis (Atragene) I'oreana.—X trailing, not a climbing kind, 

 with large sulphur or violet -coloured flowers in June (Northern 

 Korea). 



Silene capitata. — A perennial about a foot high, described as very 

 ornamental and quite distinct from all others of the genus. It 

 flowers abundantly in July and August, the colour being bright rose. 

 Native of rocky river banks in Manchuria and Korea. 



The distinctive characters of each plant are very clearly given, 

 especially those in which it dift'ers from the nearest known species. 



C. TI'. D. 



Flora of the Rochers de Naye. By G. Eeuthe {Gard. Ma<j. 

 2477, p. 242 ; 20 4 1901).— Account of a visit by the writer to this beauti- 

 ful alpine region. The plants met with are enumerated, and these include 

 some of the rarest alpine plants. — TT'^. G. 



Flora of Vavau. By I. H. Burkill ; with a short account of its 

 Vegetation by C. S. Crosby (Joiiru. Linn. Soc. p. 20; April 1901). — 

 \'avau is one of the northern Tonsra or Friendlv Islands. A summarv of 

 previous collections made in these Islands was published by Mr. Hemsley 

 in 1894, " The Flora of the Tonga or Friendly Islands," in which he 

 enumerates 303 Phanerogams and 33 vascular Cryptogams. Six months 



