542       Recent  Literature  Relating  to  Pharmacy.  {^£,5" 
ing  discussion,  will  be  found  printed  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal, 
1900,  pp.  278  and  283. 
The  total  output  of  cinchona  bark  from  Java  during  1898 
amounted  to  11,150,000  Amsterdam  pounds.  Besides  this,  500,000 
ounces  of  quinine  sulphate  were  manufactured  in  Java  during  the 
same  period. 
Consul  Clennel  does  not  regard  the  diminished  importation  ot 
opium  at  Wuhu  during  the  past  few  years,  as  compared  with  the 
years  1 885-1895,  as  indicating  the  lessening  in  the  prevalence  of  the 
opium  habit,  but  rather  as  a  sign  that  the  opium  grown  locally  is 
supplanting  that  imported  from  outside  provinces,  the  importations  of 
opium  having  been  in  recent  years  but  slightly  over  200,000  pounds, 
as  compared  to  600,000  some  years  ago. 
The  fact  that  the  trade  in  licorice  root  from  Aleppo,  Turkey,  in 
1899,  nas  decreased  6,616  tons  in  amount  and  40,966  L  in  value  is 
accounted  for  by  the  Chemist  and  Druggist  by  the  fact  that  Ameri- 
can buyers  of  last  year  postponed  the  shipment  of  part  of  their  goods 
until  the  spring  of  1900.  The  importation  of  licorice  root  into  Mar- 
seilles is  now  1,436  tons  annually  and  has  been  steadily  increasing 
during  the  past  six  years. 
BOTANICAL  NOMENCLATURE. 
A  number  of  papers  upon  the  subject  of  botanical  nomenclature 
have  appeared  in  Proc.  Linncean  Soc,  Botanical  Gazette  and  Bulletin 
of  Torrey  Botanical  Club  during  the  past  year.  The  most  note- 
worthy is  that  of  Dr.  Kuntze,  who  argues  for  the  adoption  of  1737 
as  the  starting  point  for  generic  names  in  botany,  and  1753  for  specific 
names,  with  the  future  exclusion  of  all  publications  between  Lin- 
naeus's  Genera  Plantarum  of  the  former  date  and  his  Species  Plantarum 
of  the  latter  date. 
SOME  NEW  BOOKS. 
The  last  volume  of  the  "  Flora  of  Ceylon,"  which  work  was  com- 
menced by  Henry  Trimen  in  1893,  and  continued  since  the  death 
of  the  latter  by  Sir  J.  D.  Hooker,  has  been  published  during  the  past 
year.  This  concluding  volume  contains  a  key  to  the  orders,  genera 
and  aberrant  species  of  the  flowering  plants  of  Ceylon,  besides  other 
information  relating  to  the  species.  There  are  also  comprehensive 
indices  to  the  entire  work. 
