with very small black dots and spots. Ovary linear, round- 
ed. Style subulate, ascending. Stigma simple. Pod 
bowed, nearly rounds with 16 joints^ moi'e or less. Seeds 
ovate. 
J. L. 
NOTE. 
In the last leaf of Mr. David Don's " Frodromus Florae Nepalensis it is 
affirmed, that the Iris Nepalensis, communicated to us by Sir Abraham 
Hume as a native of Nepal, and published as such at our fol. 818, upon 
that gentleman's authority, is an European plant scarcely different from Iris 
•ji rnuinica. I'pon reference to the ollicial tlocimieiits which were sent to 
England with the plant in question, t'loni the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, it 
appears that it w as packed np, with other roots, on the 19th of Xovember, 
1821, and sent, under the name of Iris Nepalensis of Wallich, by \V illiara 
Leycester, Esq. then in charge of the garden, to Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. 
by whom it was presented to Sir Abraham Hume. We should not have 
felt it necessary to notice Mr. Don's assertion, if we ourselves had been 
alone concerned; but we cannot pass in silence an attack upon the veracity 
of a gentleman of rank, who has always been one of tiie most distinguished 
patrons of the Arts and Sciences in this country. . , > 
