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having been always hitherto assigned to the interior of cells, 
where it is supposed to be formed by those vital forces of 
plants which carry on the functions of digestion and assimi- 
lation. Are we to suppose this feecula to be the residuum of 
the contents of the mother cells, the intersection of which 
produces the grains of pollen, and within which the latter 
are organized ? 
Flora de Filipinas. Segun el sistema sexual de Linneo. Por el P. Fr. 
Manuel Blanco, Agustino Calzado. Manila, 1837. 
This is a thick square 4to. of 887 pages, upon the plants 
inhabiting the fertile and richly-wooded islands called the 
Philippines. It commences with a short preface explaining 
what has already been written upon the same subject by others; 
and a sketch of the principles of the Linnean classification, 
with a glossary of botanical terms: the whole occupying lxxviii 
additional pages of introduction. The body of the work 
consists of descriptions of plants in Spanish, each filling on 
an average about three-fourths of a page, so that the whole 
number of species introduced may be estimated at about 
1100. Of these a great proportion are referred to Linnean 
plants, it is needless to say, with but little probability of their 
belonging to them; and there are, moreover, many new 
species. From the want of books the author has been unable 
to give any synonymy, which is much to be regretted, as the 
work contains a good deal of information concerning the 
uses of plants. Of new genera 17 are specially named, 
besides which others, in the opinion of the author less cer- 
tainly new, are introduced and described, but are mentioned 
by their native names only. Thus, at the head of Pentan- 
dria Monogynia, stands a plant called Bitlag, which, the 
author thinks, may be the same as Mayepea. The new genera, 
and the natural orders to which they possibly belong are the 
following :— 
Azaola, p. 402—Sapotacee. 
Balingayum, p. 187—Placed near Gronovia. : 7 
Calius, p. 608—Not to be found at this page, to which it is referred in 
the Index. 
Cobamba, p. 510 —Verbenacez. 
Enrila, p. 709—? ? 
Lumanaja, p. 821 —Euphorbiacee. 
Lunasia, p. 783—Euphorbiacee. 
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