We have placed our plant in the present genus, it being 

 clearly a congener of a Nepalese sample deposited by Dr. 

 Buchanan in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium under the title 

 Symplocos cratcegoides, which differs principally in having 

 a shorter broader nearly round leaf and blunt calycine leaf- 

 lets. But neither species can belong to Symplocos if our view 

 of the structure of the germen is correct, and indeed the 

 plants seem altogether of a different habit from those species 

 which are at present allotted to Symplocos. We believe 

 they will be to be formed into a separate genus by some 

 one who has a closer knowledge of their natural affinities 

 than we, owing to accidental causes, are enabled at pre- 

 sent to acquire. In a future article we shall probably return 

 to the subject ; which is certainly an interesting one. 



Mr. Brown has separated the first division of Jussieu's 

 Guaiacance into a distinct order, by the title Ehenacece 

 (prod. 1. 524.) ; of these our plant is clearly no coordinate. 





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