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uninhabited islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, whither it is 
highly improbable that they have been carried by man. 
W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, Kew. 
A BURMANNIA IN JAPAN.-— Through the kindness of Mr. 
Tokutaro Ito we have lately received at Kew specimens of a Bur- 
mannia , discovered by him in Japan, which, on comparison, proves 
to be B. nepalensis , Hook. f. ( Gonyanthes nepalensis , Miers). A few 
years ago Mr. Ford, Superintendent of the Hongkong Botanic Garden, 
collected the same species on the Lofau mountains, in the province of 
Kwangtung ; but it does not appear to have been found between there 
and India. It is however an exceedingly slender colourless plant two 
or three inches high, and might easily be overlooked. The Japanese 
habitat is Obi in the province of Hiogo, Kiusiu. 
W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, Kew. 
FLORA OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. — The Rev. R. 
B. Comins, who has spent some years in these islands, brought home 
a small but interesting collection of dried plants towards the end of 
last year. This collection is being worked out at Kew, and will form 
the subject of some notes in an early number of the Annals of Botany \ 
It contains several curious new plants, including a new genus of 
Scitamineae, and the very singular apocynaceous Lepinia taitensis , 
Decne., figured in the * Annales des Sciences Naturelles' in 1849. 
W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, Kew. 
ON RHYNCHOSIA? ANTENNULIFERA, /. G. Baker . 
In a note at the end of the enumeration of the genus Rhyne hosia in 
Oliver's ‘Flora of Tropical Africa,' vol. ii. p. 223, Mr. Baker 
described, under the above name, an imperfect specimen of a plant 
collected by Dr. Meller in Zambesi-land. Since then much better 
material has been received at Kew. Sir John Kirk appears to have 
been the first to collect it, though the specimens did not reach Kew 
until 1883, having formed part of a collection that was ‘lost' in 
a government warehouse at Southampton for nearly a quarter of 
a century! He collected it at Mungazi, in Zambesi-land, in 1859, 
and Dr. Meller collected it in 1861; both specimens wanting leaves 
and ripe fruit. In 1881, the Botanical Society of Edinburgh sent 
excellent specimens to Kew, collected by Mr. Buchanan in the Shiri 
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