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Randia leucocarpa, Champ.-Happy Valley woods. An interesting redisco- very, for its one known habitat in the world (on Hongkong Peak) had long been lost.
Symplocos crataegoides, Hance.-Kowloon. New to the Colony. Colonel BIRDWOOD.
kong.
Calamintha gracilis, Benth. Common in the Peak district. New to Hong-
Chenopodium ambrosioides, L.-New to China. Becoming a common weed in Hongkong.
Helicia erratica, Hook. f.-In the Little Hongkong woods. Colony.
New to the
Quercus Eyrei, Champ.-Mr. TuTCHER discovered the fruit of Champion's tree in the Happy Valley woods in March. The fruit proves it to be not an Oak at all, but a Castanopsis. The new name which this discovery necessitates is purposely left to be published in some more widely circulated work.
Quercus polystachya, Wall.-Mr. TUTCHER writing from Kew tells me that an unnamed plant in the Herbarium (Nos. 981 and 2,032) proves to be this species. It has been collected on Mt. Nicholson and above Wanchai. New to the Colony.
Myrica rubra, S. & Z.--Tytam. Not previously found in the Island for forty years.
Aspidium aculeatum, Sw.-Mt. Nicholson. New to South-East China. Dr. MATHEW.
Mr. TUTCHER has devoted a considerable amount of his leave to work in the Kew Herbarium, and, besides the information contributed as above, he is describing a new genus and 7 new species of plants from the Hongkong Herbarium in a forthcoming number of the Linnean Journal.
LIBRARY.
The following periodicals and other works have been purchased :—
Botanical Magazine,
Botanisches Centralblatt,
Gardener's Chronicle,
Geographical Journal,
Journal of Botany,
Revue des Cultures Coloniales,
Acta Horti Petropolitani, Vols. XI—XXII.
Maximowicz.-Diagnoses des Plantes Nov. Asiatiques, fasc. 1, 2 & 7. Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) Vols. ΗXXXIII & Index
(bound in 32 vols.)
Franchet Plantae Delavayanae, Parts 1-III.
Index Kewensis. Fasciculus I-III.
Some of the above works were difficult to obtain and if it had not been for the kindness for Dr. F. N. WILLIAMS of Brentford many of them could not have been secured at all. Our warmest thanks are due to Dr. WILLIAMS for the trouble which he has taken in searching for and ordering the books.
Periodicals were presented by the following establishments :——
Agricultural Departments of Calcutta, Cape Colony, Jamaica, London,
Manila, Straits Settlements, United States, University of Califor nia, Victoria, Western Australia, and West Indies.
Botanic Gardens of British Guiana, Calcutta, Ceylon, Gold Coast, Jamaica, Kew, Natal, Saharanpur, St. Lucia, Tobago, Straits Settlements and Trinidad.
Forestry Reports were received from India relating to Bengal, Baluchis- tan, Central Provinces, Coorg, Madras Presidency, Oudh, Assam and Punjab, and from Cape of Good Hope, Manila, and Straits Settlements.