Haines thanks Prain for the generous notice of his A FOREST FLORA OF CHOTA NAGPUR in the KEW BULLETIN and for kindly sending him a copy. He sees that Lace has been making valuable additions to the known Burmese flora in spite of his hard work there. They are only just beginning to get the proper monsoon there, although a most unusual rainfall of 12 inches has left everything going 'in hopes'. Haines was up in Pachmarhi for a fortnight and was unable to identify the common Berberis there. It seems undescribed in the flora and he must send some to Gage. It seems unlikely that such a common plant, at a place where collectors are common, has not been described somewhere. Annotations note that Haines was asked how the plant differs from Berberis asiatica. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.