Dr C.A. Backer finished the MS on the Amaranthaceae for the Flora Malesiana; he started work on the Chenopodiaceae, Aizoaceae and other families. Mr R.D. Hoogland, Leyden, finished the revision of Malaysian Tetracera, Acrotrema, Didesmandra and Hibbertia. He will soon start to work on Wormia and Dillenia.