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letters from the Government and Council of Education, 
married, and proceeded to Malacca, where his death took 
place. 
He was a man of a warm and ardent temper, eager in the 
cause of science, and ready to sacrifice all considerations of 
personal advantage to what he believed to be right. In doing 
this he, like all men who take a similar course, made some : 
enemies ; but he also secured many zealous friends, who will 
long lament him as one of the brightest luminaries that yet 
have shone upon the science of India. 
Mr. Griffith left behind him enormous collections, part of 
which are preparing for distribution by Dr. Royle, under the 
authority of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East 
India Company. 
Annales de la Société Royale d' Agriculture et de Botanique 
de Gand. 
This work, of which we have two numbers before us, is a 
Botanico- Horticultural Journal by Professor Morren of Ghent, 
in imitation of some of our English périodicals. It is to 
include Horticultural and Botanical papers, descriptions of 
new Belgian Plants, and miscellaneous matters. We shall 
give extracts from it occasionally, so far as it contains papers 
interesting to the English reader. The novelties of the first 
two numbers are as follows :— 
46. ONCIDIUM gallopavinum. 
Morren, Ann. Soc. Hort. Gand. 1. 13. 
O. gallopavinum ; pseudobulbis ovatis, apice attenuatis; foliis binis, planis, 
lanceolatis; scapo elongato, spica simplici, 7-10 floribus divaricatis ; 
bracteis minimis, ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, membranaceis ; sepalis liberis, 
ovatis, undulato-concavis, roseo-purpureis ; petalis ovato-lanceolatis, 
roseo-purpureis ; labelli lobis lateralibus spathulatis, abbreviatis, rubris, 
intermedio maximo, elongato, emarginato, obcordato, sinu brevi mucro- 
nato, citrino, crista minima, vix bicallosa, tuberculis maximis, rugoso- 
carunculatis, purpureis, column auriculis alato-explanatis, latis. 
. This is said to be Mexican; its lip is yellow, the sepals 
and petals greenish, stained with crimson; but the figure is 
so very inexact in its details that we cannot form any 
opinion upon it. 
