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SINCE Dr. A. Engler's appointment to the post of Director of the Berlin Botanical Garden and Museum, this periodical has become the organ of the very active staff of botanists of that establishment; and the comparatively recent German colonial policy has revived the interest in systematic and economic botany, to which it is devoted chiefly. Vols. xv. and xvi. are being published concurrently. This publication is partly devoted to original work and partly to a review of contemporary botanical literature. The fifteenth volume is largely taken up by contributions to the flora of tropical Africa, in the form of an elaboration by various botanists of the extensive collections made by numerous German travellers. Quite a host of new species are described, but, truth to say, nothing very remarkable in new generic types. Hybophrynium is a new genus of Scitamineæ, near Trachyphrynium, with which it was generically associated by Bentham and Hooker; and the Aroidæ, elaborated by Engler himself, include two or three new genera. Pseudohydrosme is characterised by a large, almost truncate spathe and a spadix without any terminal naked continuation.
Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.
(Leipzig: W. Engelmann.)
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H., W. Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. Nature 47, 413 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047413a0
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