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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
own colour to be combined by the eye into a complete colour scheme. 
The weakness of the process lay in this, that it almost demanded 
a paper coated with baryta or china-clay which could not be guaran¬ 
teed as permanent besides the temptation to use inks made from 
aniline dyes which were fugitive. In the course of the interesting 
discussion which ensued, Sir David Prain remarked that Mr. Pantling 
prepared the coloured plates for his Orchids of Sikkim by training 
native boys to colour his special portion of each plate, the last touches 
completing the colouring being put in by the last boy. 
At the meeting of the same Society on April 19, Mr. James 
Groves presented a paper entitled “ Notes on Indian Charophyta.” 
He stated that it was seventy-four years since a separate account of 
the Indian charophytes had appeared and that at that time eleven 
species only were known to occur. A few additional records were 
published in 1873, and in the “ Fragmente einer Monographie der 
Characeen ” compiled by Nordstedt from Braun’s MS. and published 
in 1882, a number were added. Since the last date much collecting 
had been done and the present paper was the result of the examina¬ 
tion of specimens which had passed through the hands of the late 
Henry Groves and the author. In 1882 representatives of the genera 
Char a and Nitella only were known from India ; he was now able to 
record a Nitellopsis, a Lychnothamnus and three species of Tolypella. 
The paper included descriptions of two new species, Nitella TVattii 
and N mirahilis (previously found in China, and named in MS. by 
Dr. Nordstedt). That much was still to be done in this group was 
evident from the fact that Mr. G. 0. Allen had within the past three 
years, in a comparatively small area, added three well-marked species 
to the Indian flora besides rediscovering C. Wallichii , of which only 
the male plant collected in 1809 by Dr. Wallich was previously 
known', and establishing the occurrence of Nitellopsis ohtusa (in 
Kashmir) the only previous Asiatic record of which was dependent 
on a poor specimen from Burmah, as to which, owing to its sterility, 
there had been an element of doubt. 
From the Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa 
(part 9) we learn that Mr. Fred Eyles, an enthusiastic collector, some 
of whose plants have been described in these pages, has been appointed 
Chief Government Botanist of Southern Rhodesia, and that Prof. 
Thoday, who since 1918 has filled the Harvey Bolus Chair of Botany 
at Cape Town, is leaving that post for the Chair of Botany in the 
University College of North Wales. The number contains papers 
(all of them illustrated) on “ The Native Trees and Tree-Shrubs of 
Kirstenbosch,” bv R. H. Compton, with a key to the species; “ South 
African Iridaceasf by L. Bolus, with notes on their cultivation by 
J. W. Matthews, Curator of the National Botanical Gardens; and 
“ Carnivorous Plants of the Peninsula,” by Edith Stephens. The 
eccentricities of pagination still continue ; each part is paged sepa¬ 
rately, and the number is given in words in thick black type at 
the foot of each page ; the page-headings afford no useful informa¬ 
tion, but this ineptitude is unfortunately too common to call for 
remark. 
