CARALLUMA fimbriata. Tab. 8. 



Ra„,s eloiigatis. atteauatb. apice nutantibus, obsolete sinuato^enticulatk ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis. acutis, planis • 

 flonb;. axUlanbus. sohtarns subeampanulatis, nutantibus; laeiniis corolla, apiee falcatis, marginibus replicati 

 fimbnatis ; foliohs corona; antheris altemantibus 2-cornutis > 8 "» icpucatis 



Habitat in coUibus sterilibus arenosis ad Ycnangenn fluminis Irawaddi, petrolco et fossilibns tantun, uberibus, et 

 inter rmnas urbis Pagamew, florens („t ctiam in horto Calcuttensi) ct frnctifera mease Septembris. 



■ /^'"■\^17?"''=''"^. Pf'M". ^bglaucesceas, debili., glabmima. lUmx constans fibris longi., pallidis. Ca™,s digitum crassu. 

 .nfern^ subcylmdno,. sur.^m angulatus. IUm. elo„ga«, 4-7-pollieares, caad^-angulare,, apicem ve.™ a..e„„a.i. J^ZI^ri 



ZZrX '' T . """"' '' "'"°" ""*"'"'• ^""-^ «-ri-,aace„,a,a, acuta ereciuscula, plana, iaea. duas l^gl 



F^HES a.,lla,«, .ohta™, pary,, nutantes ™sim^ 2 vel 3 .e,™i„ale., violacei, inodori, campanula.!. Pe„„ J„.„s cylindrions, ung^i- 



itT;- T^!""^^ fT' ? '""""^ ' '"""^°""-' ''™'^'- Co-LL. campannlato-patens, profundi 5-flda; L™,. lU pflli- 

 car^s. d,ma^ rnfenore parte lanceolate, nnda,, snprj Have, lineU pluribus transversls purpureis striate, subtu» pallid* flavo, ; eJeriore 

 ;,<,,■ epurpm-ee, exphcat,„ne „vat«, sed propter latera replieata vertical et falcate, cuspidate, margine superiore recto puberulo, 

 pontics convexis fimbnafs M« longis, tenuissimi.,, eoneoloribus, basi artieulatis, vacillantibus. Column, parvula, globosa. Co,on; 

 atropurpurea, 10-iida: i^c.n,^ 5 antheris incumben.es lineares, apice subemarginate ; 5 Usee al.eman.es ad basin usque divise in 

 dentes duos arcuatos, d.vancatos, cum proximis decussantes, apice tei-minatos glanduW minutissima llavicante. Mass*, ro.L,N,s plani- 

 uscule, cuneate, opace, pedicellate; corposc„,.a linearia, fusea, nitida. Folliculus abctu solitarius, cylindricus, g,ucilis, Lis, 



«J~p0illC3il IS. 



Roxburgh's Stapelia adscendens {Caralluma, Br.) is very like our plant, but differs in the absence of the lon^ 

 articulated flaccid cihoe of the corolla. Stapelia subulata, Forsk. Cat. Arab. p. cviii. n. 193. t. 7, approaches also 

 very closely to it ; but I conjecture they are different. 



Tliis curious species delights in arid exposed situations. I found it among the ruins at Pagamew, and on the hills, 

 at Yenangeun, among stones and fossils, not far from the celebrated petroleum wells*. 



Tab. VIII. Fig. 1 . Calyx after the corolla has fallen off. 2. Flower. 3. A detached lacinia of the corolla. 4 Columna 



5. Two masses of pollen inserted in their corpusculum. The last three figures much magnified. 



♦ I avail myself of this opportunity for correcting a slight mistake in the notes, which it appears the late envoy to the Court of Ava communicated to Professor 

 Buckland, and on which this emment geologist founded a memoir entitled, Geological Accouni of a series of Animal and Vegetable Remains and of Rocks col 

 lected by J. Cra'wfurd, Esq., on a Voyage up the Ira'maddi in 1826 and 1827; which was read before the Geological Society on the 18th of April 1828 and lias 

 since been inserted in the 2nd volume of their Transactions, 2nd series, page 377. I was in hopes tliat Mr. Crawfurd, in recently publishing his Journal of an 

 Embassy to the Court of Ava, would himself have rectified the mistake, especially as he has incorporated the whole of the said memoir, in which it occurs with 

 his book, in the shape of an Appendix ; but since he has omitted this, I now proceed to do it for him, in as few words as I can. 



Professor Buckland begins his memoir in these words: « For the specimens and notes which form the subject of the present communication, the Society is 

 indebted to the zeal and activity of J. Crawfurd, Esq. one of its Fellows, who having occasion to traverse the Burmese country on an Embassy to Ava in the 

 years 1826 and 1827, discovered an extensive deposit of organic remains in that unknown and distant region." Again, a little further on, « It is on an examina- 

 tion of these specimens, and of the notes contained in Mr. Crawfurd's daily journal, that the observations and descriptions that make up the present memoir are 

 founded." Memoir, page 377 ; Appendix to Mr. Crawfurd's work, page 78.-In the next page and at the conclusion the following encomium is bestowed upon the 

 late envoy. « It could scarcely have been anticipated that, within so short a period as has elapsed since the date of this publication" (Professor Buckland's 

 Beliqui(B Diluviance), " the zealous investigations of a single individual should have gone so far as those of Mr. Crawfurd have done, to supply an answer to the 

 question then proposed." " It must be confessed, in concluding, that the result of these discoveries, though intensely interesting, and a splendid example of what 

 may be done by the skill and activity of one zealous gentleman," &c. Memoir, pages 378 and 389; Appendix, pages 78 and 88. 



The reader is now requested to turn to Mr. Crawfurd's book. « The most curious petrifaction, however, which we met with, was obtained by Dr. Wallich^— 

 a fossil bone, which from its appearance we judged at the time to be the lower part of the femur or thigh-bone of an elephant." Journal, 23rd September, p. 53. 

 On this passage I have to remark, that I did not obtain this fossil, but walking along the banks of the Irawaddi a little below Yenangeun, in company with Dr. 

 Stuart and Lieut. Montmorency, the envoy being on board the Dia?2a steamer at the time, I— or according to Professor Buckland's memoir, Mr. Crawfurd— disco- 

 vered this large relic. The whole party landed in the afternoon, but we could find no more specimens of the kind ; nor did we meet with a single one for upwards 

 of three months, until on our return from Ava we came again to the identical spot where the discovery had originally been made; and here we now collected an 

 amazing quantity of similar animal petrifactions. This last event, which has nothing whatever to do with the discovery, our author describes in chap. 12, p. 336; 

 and he pointedly refers to it in the list of contents which heads the chapter, in these words : " Remarkable discovery of fossil bones ;" while the list of the contents 

 at the beginning of chap. 2, which contains the real discovery, is perfectly silent on the subject of it. 



Great praise is no doubt due to the geological labours and discoveries of Mr. Crawfurd. Some little credit should, I think, be given also to the sources from 

 whence were derived the splendid and altogether matchless opportunities, which the Mission enjoyed for prosecuting researches into natural history, and which 

 rendered success absolutely inevitable. My own share in the harvest has been but trifling, but so much the less can I afford to part with it ; and I leave it with 

 confidence to the decision of the Geological Society, to whom I have had the honour of belonging these many years, whether Mr. Crawfurd's pretensions as 

 held forth in their Transactions, are founded on facts or otherwise. 



