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61. SOLANUM betaceum. Cav. ic. vol. 6. t. 524. 
This plant is noticed for the sake of identifying it with 
the “ Tree Tomato,” which has appeared in several collec- 
tions, from seeds gathered in the woods of Tucuman by Mr. 
Tweedie. It was long ago figured in the Botanist’s Repo- 
sitory, t. 511, and was afterwards lost. It is a tall coarse 
weedy looking plant, with large heart-shaped leaves, and little 
axillary racemes of pale violet flowers. It has no beauty 
whatever ; but its name seems to indicate the fruit being used 
for sauces; it has not ripened here that I know of. 
Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum. (See Bot. Reg. misc. 1839. p. 40.) 
There is great satisfaction in being able to announce that 
this highly important work will probably be completed in the 
course of the present year. The twelfth part, published in 
Vienna in November last, has reached this country, and goes 
as far as genus 5213 Arversia, in the midst of Caryophyllez. 
The whole of the manuscript of the body of the work has been 
some time in the printer’s hands, and the Supplement, a very 
important part, is now engaging the learned author’s constant 
attention. When the work is fully before the public, it will 
have placed systematic Botany in a better position than it has 
been in since the appearance of the Genera Plantarum of 
Jussieu, half a century ago. The recent appointment of Dr. 
Endlicher to the charge of the Botanic garden of Vienna, as 
the successor to the late Baron v. Jacquin, will be most grati- 
fying to all the friends of science ; and the more so, as it was 
the spontaneous and unsolicited act of the Emperor. 
CATALEPSY * of Physostegia virginiana, Benth. (Dracocephalum virginia- 
num. L.) 
There are some curious and interesting remarks upon this 
subject by Prof. Morren, in the Bulletin de l'Académie royale 
de Bruxelles, no. 10 for 1836, of which the following is an 
abstract, with the wording in some respects altered in conse- 
* Catalepsy is defined to be a disease in which the nerves and power of 
voluntary motion are suddenly suspended, the body and limbs of the patient 
remaining unmoved in the situation in which they happen to be at the 
moment of the attack, and readily receiving and retaining any other position 
which is communicated to them by external force. 
