flower; not imperfect and clandestine like those of the 

 generality of Milkwoi*ts, among which thejr have been over- 

 looked even by the most attentive Botanists. Is this cir- 

 cumstance peculiar to the West Indian congeners, or be- 

 longing to paniculata alone ? We have seen no other from 

 those parts. 



Paniculata is found in the shade of the mountain-forests 

 and moisture of river-sides of St. Domingo and Jamaica. 



The genus extends itself, by the types of various and 

 numerous species, over every quarter of the earth. 



An upright diminutive annual, seldom exceeding six 

 inches in height, furred with a minute glandular pubes- 

 cence ; branches fastigiant (growing to a level one with the 

 other), and as well as the stem round. Leaves loosely scat- 

 tered, almost sessile, lanceolately linear, scarcely more 

 than a line broad. Racemes upright, loosely many-flowered, 

 leafless, peduncles long, filiform ; pedicles capillary, bracte- 

 less, one-flowered, shorter than the flower, in bloom upright, 

 [ in frtdt drooping. Flowers small, purplish white, loosely 

 , scattered, scarcely more than one line long. Cafyx 5-cleft ; 

 three segments herbaceous with a narrow white edge, the 

 uppermost bipartite and incumbent upon the stamens and 

 in lieu of the vexillum, lowermost entire and resembling 

 • the lobes of the uppermost, two lateral ones alaeform co- 

 loured, equal to the corolla, lanceolately oblong, upright, 

 and spreading. Jke of the corolla whitish and e^ial to 

 the carina, oblong, obtuse: caWna whitish, crested. 



N. In the character of Calanthe (fol. 721 of this rolume) the words 

 " porrectum, explanatum,'' are an unintentional repetiiioD, and should be 

 omitted. 



We are rrauested to state, that the plant from which our figure of ScBi- 

 ZOPBTALON Walkeri ffol. 752 of this vol.) was taken in the garden of the 

 Hottieuhural 8o«ctyi had been raised from seeds presented to the Society 

 by Mr, Bcancis Place. 



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