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the two plants. As for many years the greater part of Java has 
been under cultivation, the Javanese have lost all knowledge of plant- 
names, and constantly use the wrong ones for species. The Malays 
being less urban, living in a forested and wilder country, know the 
names more accurately and would scoff: at anyone who called a Kechapi 
tree a Sentol. If the two species are descended one from the other, 
which is possible, it is most probable that the Sentol—a somewhat 
popular plant the fruit of which is sold in the markets—is a culti¬ 
vated form of the wild Kechapi, which I have once or twice seen in 
the Malay forests apparently wild ; Sentol I have only seen in culti¬ 
vation. I should like to see the type-specimen referred to ; it must be 
an unusually good herbarium specimen for the date to be identifiable. 
Any way, it does not seem to be of any service to botany to dig out 
from its well-preserved oblivion a specific name which is neither Latin 
nor Greek, but a barbarous Dutch mis-spelling of a Malay word applied 
to the wrong plant. I do not know why Mr. Merrill thinks 1 con¬ 
sider the common Sandoricum nervosum Kechapi to be the very rare 
and little-known S. Maingayi —I certainly do not and never did (see 
Flora of the Malay Peninsula, i. 38o).—H. N. Ridley. 
The Huntingdon Elm. —In the Sloane Herbarium, vol. 126, 
p. 38 (verso) (Adam Buddie’s collection), is an Elm labelled by 
Buddie : “ Ulmus folio latissimo glabro Buddie. The broad leaved 
smooth Wich-Elme. I observed this Anno 1711 plentyfully about 
Danbury in Essex.” This specimen seems to be the Huntingdon 
Elm: I showed it to Mr. A. B. Jackson, who at once said the same. 
If so, this Elm was in existence and mature some years before the 
reputed raising of the Huntingdon Elm by Wood of Huntingdon 
“about 1746.”— J. E. Little. 
REVIEWS. 
Fungus Diseases. 
(1) The Diseases of the Tea-Bush. By T. Petch, B.A., B.Sc. 
Pp. xii, 220, 3 coloured plates, 69 text-figs. Macmillan, 1923. 
Price 20s. net. 
(2) Fungus Diseases of Crops, 1920-21. Ministry of Agriculture 
and Fisheries Miscellaneous Publications; No. 38. 1922. 
Price 3s. net. Pp. 104, 2 charts. 
(1) The name of Mr. T. Petch, botanist and mycologist to the 
Government of Ceylon, on any mycological work is sufficient guarantee 
of competent treatment. This in its way is remarkable, as he is 
probably the most prolific British writer on the subject, and a pro¬ 
digious output is not usually regarded as indicating efficiency. “ This 
book is intended to enable the planter to recognize the diseases of 
the tea-bush which have up to the present been recorded, and to take 
steps to control them when they appear or to lessen the probability 
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