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incomplete or erroneous. Thus, if we compare our specimens with 
the analysis of A. concolor, as represented by Poeppig (Nov. Gen. 
t. 190), his 3 petals do not exist, the monadelphy is only a slight 
adherence of the stamens at the base itself, and his embryo 
(figured erroneously on the inner side of the endosperm, and 
bearing foliaceous cotyledons) is merely a thickening of the 
endocarpic dissepiment, the real embryo having been overlooked 
in the interior channel of the endosperm. .Miers, on the other 
hand, of whom I have compared such materials as exist in Sir 
W. Hooker's and Bentham's herbaria, was mistaken, in conse- 
quence of the incompleteness of the specimens, in his character of 
Anelasma, which he describes as apetalous, and presenting an ex- 
albuminose embryo with large thick cotyledons,—though Poeppig, 
with respect to A. concolor, had given a nearly correct idea of the 
large ruminated albumen, formed exactly in the same way as in A. 
rufescens, and though Cocculus domingensis, the second species of 
his genus Anelasma, exhibits 6 petals in its male flower. A seed 
of the latter, which had been examined by Miers, I found not 
impregnated, and in consequence the drupe filled only partially 
by a dead tissue, taken possibly for an exalbuminose embryo. 
Abuta rufescens, Aubl., is characterized by ovate, pointed, five- 
nerved leaves, velvety on their under side, and by the inflorescence 
and the ovaries downy. Its apparent synonyms are Batschia 
racemosa and conferta, Thunb. (Nov. Act. Ups. v. t. 2. f. 1, 2,— 
а tolerable representation of the genus), both forms from New 
Granada,—the range of the species comprising the whole of equa- 
torial America from that country to the Amazons and Guiana. 
A. concolor, Poepp., approaching in habit to Coceulus domin- 
gensis, is distinguished by elliptical polished leaves, the primary 
veins of which are separate at the base itself, and the tertiary 
veinlets not prominent. Its synonyms are, Anelasma Spruceanum, 
Miers!, A. guianense, Miers!, and probably Cocculus levigatue, 
Mart. Its geographical range comprises a still larger area, viz. 
equatorial Brazil !, Goyaz (Gardn. no. 3567 !), Cayenne (Martin). 
Notes on Arctic Plants. By E. Diode, Esq., M.D., A.L.S., 
Professor of Natural History, Queen’s College, Belfast. 
[Read April 15th, 1858.) 
Dr. J. D. Ноокев, in April 1856, communicated to the Linnean 
Society “ Remarks on some Collections of Arctic Plants.” It 
being desirable that аз many facts as possible should be placed on 
