7. The following is a list of plants which flowered for the first time in these gardens:-
Anthurium Schertzerianum.
Aloe picta.
Aristolochia recurvilabra.
Berberis chinense.
Cinnamomum cassia.
Cassia siamea.
Gasteria verrucosa. Evonymus gibber.
Jasminum simplicifolium. Manihot glaziovii. Kaempferia elegans. Macrozamia Miquelli.
Pinus Massoniana.
Ptychosperma Alexandræ.
Plumbago zeylanica.
Phoenix farinifera.
Pelargonium fragrans. Quercus fissa.
cornea.
Harlandi.
Rhododendron Championæ.
Sarcocephalus cordatus. Salix babylonica,
Swainsonia Osborni. Spiraea callosa.
Symplocos congesta. Stereospermum sinicum.
Schizocapsa plantaginea. Tristanea conferta. Wormia alata.
Weigela rosea.
8. The usual interchanges of plants and seeds with other establishments and individuals have been conducted. The facilities, however, for carrying on the exchanges with Queensland have been considerably reduced owing to the discontinuance of the E. A. S. S. Company's steamers running so regularly to Brisbane as they did; and, also, to some changes in the administration of the Queensland establishments. To the agents of the Eastern & Australian Steam-ship Company we have for several years been much indebted for the favours, so kindly and freely given, of carrying consignments of plants and seeds free of freight to and from the Australian Colonies and Singapore.
9. During the past year the receipts have been 1,373 living plants, 148 packets, boxes, and bags of seeds, from 41 contributors, included in 76 consignments.
10. The plants sent out during the year were 868, and of packets, and bags of seeds the number was 82 to 29 recipients, included in 48 consignments.
11. The following is the list of contributors to the gardens:-
Alves, A. F.
Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, W. Hill, Director.
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Melbourne, W. Guilfoyle,
Trinidad, H. Frestage, Superintendent.
Bunting, I., Yokohama.
Burnie, E.
Bernays, L. A., F.L.S., Brisbane. Coote, His Excellency, Admiral. Chatterjee, S. P., Calcutta.
Chalmers, J. L., Pakhoi.
Chun Atsan.
Clouth, Dr.
Dolan, W.
Hayllar, T. C., Q.C.
Hance, H. F., Whampoa.
How Qua, Canton.
Humphreys, J. D.
Henry, Rev. B. C., Canton.
Johnson, Hon. F. B.
Kopsch, H., Pakhoi.
Leichtlin, M., Baden Baden.
Lucknow Horticultural Garden.
Manger, Mrs.
Donovan, His Excellency Lieut.-General. Nowrojee, D.
Perry, W. Wykeham.
Phillips, G., Taiwan.
Queensland Acclimatisation Society, L. A. Bernays, F.L.S., Vice-President.
Robinson, A. A. Mrs.
Royal Garden, Kew, Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., &c., Director.
Rapp, F.
Romano, A. G.
Roberts, J. F., Sydney.
Stephens, M. J.
Sampson, Theo., Canton.
Taylor, C. S.
Woodin, E. L.
James Veitch and Sons, London,
Watters, T., Tamsui.
12. Thanks are specially due to the Honourable F. B. JOHNSON for his great kindness in procuring, from different parts of China and Formosa, plants and seeds of various kinds which were wanted for the gardens.
13. Although the island of Hongkong has been so much hunted over by botanists and collectors, scarcely a year passes without discoveries of entirely new plants being made, or of known plants being discovered for the first time in Hongkong. During the past year several new plants from Hongkong have been added to the enormous list of known and described plants.
14. While mentioning new plants, I may state that specimens of these are always carefully collected, dried, and preserved in the herbarium cabinets in the gardens' office; and, also, that now that the dried collections of plants have been arranged and docketed, they are available for reference and study to those who may require to use them for those purposes.