THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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taking with her for determination some 500 specimens from the 
National Herbarium and 300 to 400 from Rhodesia; it was found 
that certain genera badly need revision, and copious notes were made 
for future work. The work of the Botanical Survey is summarised; 
Dr. Schonland reported on the invasion of Helichrysum argyro- 
phyllum , on the Amatola Mountains, and suggested that the Survey 
should take steps to investigate means of restoring the veld to the 
original condition of a grass veld. 
The K ew Bulletin issued in December (no. 9) contains papers 
on “Oospores in Cultures of BliytopJithora Faberi ,” by S.F. Ashby; 
“ The Fruiting of Ginkgo biloba at Kew,” with plate, by W. Dalli- 
more ; “ Buttresses as an Assistance to Identification,” by T. F. 
Ohipp; “The Occurrence of Fusarium in Uganda,” by W. Small ; 
“A Contribution to the Flora of the Near East,” by W. B. Turrill 
(Astragalus Durliamii , sp. n.) ; and “ Dunn’s Wattle” ( Acacia 
Dunnii) Turrill, sp. n. 
The Few Bulletin (no. 10), also issued in December, contains an 
unsigned article on the Efwatakala Grass of West Africa ( Mel in is 
mimetijiora Beauv.) with illustrations, in the course of which 
Dr. Stapf describes two new species, M. ejfusa and M. tenuinervis ; 
an account of the Government Gardens, Sokoto, Nigeria ; “ New and 
Noteworthy South African Plants ” (chiefiy Acacias with six new 
species) ; and a list of the late George Massee’s publications. Miss 
Roper reports that the experiment at Cleveden, Somerset, of planting 
Spartina Townsenclii as a mud-binder has proved unsuccessful. 
The Supplement Botanique to the Bevue Zoologique Africctine 
(x. fasc. 3 ; Dec. 15) is devoted to “ Notes on a Collection of Hepa- 
ticse from Belgian Congo ex herb. R. Naveau, Antwerp,” by Mr. W. 
H. Pearson, in which many new species are figured and described. 
We note that the volume which this number completes contains other 
botanical papers, which, in view of the title of the Bevue, are likely 
to be overlooked. 
The Government of the Gold Coast has issued a Forest Officers' 
Handbook for that region prepared by Dr. T. F. Cliipp, who, before 
his appointment to Kew Gardens as Assistant Director, was Deputy 
Conservator of Forests. In addition to an account of the forests and 
of the climate in its relation to distribution, the Handbook contains 
notes on plants and trees of economic importance and an index of 
their botanical and native names, with twenty plates of the more 
important species. The Handbook is published by the Crown Agents 
for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, S.W. 1. 
The second number of the Japanese Journal of Botany (National 
Research Council of Japan, Tokyo) contains a paper by M. Nishi- 
mura on “The Comparative Morphology and Development of Boa 
pratensis, Plileum pratense, and Setaria italicaff with four plates, 
and a list by Y. Kudo, of the Labiates of Hokkaido; abstracts of 
■papers relating to Botany which have appeared in Japan from 
July 1921 to March 1922 are added. 
