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 On the botanical subdivision of Ireland. 67 which I have examined being oblong or kidney-shaped, wibh gene- rally a longitudinal furrow. I am indebted to Mr. Clarke for pointing out the identity of Dr. Smith's plant with Aneilema sepalosum, which forms the only African among a group of Indian, Malayan, and Chinese species. The genus is dedicated to Mr. F, Gillett, a member of Dr. Donaldson Smith's expedition. Mr. Baker also finds among the Polypetalse Keller onia splendens Schinz (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1895, p. 600, t. ix.), from low-lying country to the east of the Shebeli river; Crotalaria J amesii Oliw., from a little to the west of the same river ; C. natalitia Meisn. , a South African species, from Sheikh Mohammed ; and Cassia aden- ensis Benth. Mr. Eendle has identified Xerophyta Schnitzleinia Baker and Crijium Thruppii Baker, from between Jub River and Lake Stefanie, and Euphorbia oblongicaulis Baker, an Arabian plant, from east of the Shebeli river. Plate 355. — A. Donaldsonia steiiopetala Bak. fil. 1. Leaf. 2. Portion of inflorescence. 3. Flower. 4. Sepal. 5. Petal. 6. Flower, petals removed; s, stamen ; st, staminode. 7. Stamen and staminode. 8. Longitudinal section of ovary. Figs. 1, 2, nat. size; 3-7, x 2; 8, x 5. B. Gillettia sepalosa B.endle. 1. Whole plant. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen (front and side view). 4. Staminode. 5. Pollen grain. 6. Pistil. 7. Transverse section of ovary. 8. Floral diagram. Figs. 1, 2, nat. size ; 3, 4, & 6, X 3 ; 6 & 7, more highly magnified. Plate 356. — Hydnora Hanningtoni Eendle. 1. Plant bearing a flower. 2. Flower in longitudinal section. 3. Longitudinal section passing through two pairs of pollen-sacs. 4. Portion of placenta, in longitudinal section, bearing ovules. 5. A single ovule. Fig. 1, half nat. size ; 2, two-thirds nat. size ; 3, X 16. ON THE BOTANICAL SUBDIVISION OF IRELAND. By R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E. Thirty- SEVEN years have now elapsed since, at a meeting of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, a paper by Charles C. Babington was read, entitled ** Hints towards a Cybele Hibernica." In this communication, the author put forward a scheme for the subdivision of Ireland into twelve provinces and thirty-seven counties and vice-counties, on the plan of Watson's Cybele Britannica ; and as the paper is not readily accessible to most botanists,* the suggested division may be reprinted here : — XIX. South Atlantic. — 113. South Kerry; 114. North Kerry ; 115. South Cork. XX. Blackwater.— 116. North Cork ; 117. Wexford; 118. South Tipperary. XXI. Barrow.— 119. Kilkenny; 120. Carlow; 121. Queen's Co. XXII. Leinster Coast. — 122. Wexford; 123. Wicklow. and in Proc. Dub. Univ. Zool. and Bot. Assoc, i.
 * It was published in the Natural History Review, vi. pt. 2, Dublin, 1859;