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wrong. I agree with Dr. Anderson in identifying Wallich's plant 
with Adinandra acuminata, Korth. 
Ternstremia? khasyana, Choisy. 
In his memoir, Choisy describes (p. 20) a specimen in the herba- 
rium of M. Boissier which had been collected by Griffith in Khasya, 
and distributed by him with the number 422. Choisy states that 
he had seen the same plant in the Paris herbarium ; and he refers 
it as a doubtful species to Ternstreemia under the name of T.? 
khasyana. Some doubt at once arises as to the correctness of this 
determination, from the small number of stamens (10) observed by 
him. The examination of the type specimen, which was most 
kindly intrusted to me by M. Boissier, proved that Choisy was in 
error as to the number of stamens, since they are really indefinite. 
Although, however, the plant possessed a facies remarkably simi- 
lar to that of many Ternstroemiacee, it certainly did not belong to 
any Indian species. With the aid of Professor Oliver, I finally 
succeeded in identifying the rather fragmentary type specimen 
with numerous examples of Illicium Griffithii, H. f. & T., in 
the Kew herbarium, which had been collected in Khasya by Grif- 
fith, and bore the same distribution-number (422). There is a 
marked agreement of “ adaptive" characters between Illicium 
Griffithii and Ternstremia japonica, Thb. In fact, acute-leaved 
specimens of the latter, also collected in Khasyah, closely resemble, 
in the dried state, the Illicium, both as regards the leaves and the 
external aspect of the flowers. 
Extract of a letter from Major-General Mou; C.B., to 
Mr. BeNTHAM, dated May 29, 1872. 
My work anent botanizing has been in Jamaica, where I recently 
spent six weeks, and pretty fairly explored about two thirds of 
the island towards the west. Generally speaking, it is not so 
interesting a botanieal country as Trinidad or St. Vincent. The 
same plants prevail over large areas, caused, I presume, by the 
general homogeneity of the geological formation, principally lime- 
stone. There are few showy flowers and creepers ; and I scarcely 
recollect seeing any variegated plants in the woods. A large 
extent of country is almost devoid of water, except when the rains 
are actually falling; and several of the rivers disappear under- 
ground for miles through some of the crevices and between the 
great beds ofthe white limestone ; so that dripping rocks and moist 
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