lent Dr. Canny of Serampore sent to Mr. Cooper, who so 
ably conducts the gardens at Wentworth House, and to the 
Messrs. Sueruerps of Liverpool, a ge of seed gathered 
on the Circar mountains to the North East of Bengal *, and 
from the liberality of these two cultivators, I believe, have 
originated all the plants that are now living in the country. 
The seed vessels Mr. Cooper describes as occupying a por- 
tion of the flower-stalk nearly twelve inches in length, as 
being an inch and a half long, and very like those of the 
genus CEnoTHERA, particularly Gbienmis or muricata. 
Mr. Lrnpzy has given me a specimen of our N. distilla- 
toria, gathered at Sia from J. Harrison, Esq. I have 
a drawing of the same species which that gentleman found 
in the Seychelles Islands : so that the plant has probably a 
yery extensive geographical range in India. It is to be 
hoped, that the other equally wonderful species of this 
enus, of which I possess three in my Herbarium, from Dr. 
ALLICH, and a fourth, a native of Madagascar, gathered 
by Mr. Bogen, will, ere long, be introduced into our stoves: 
none can be more truly worthy of cultivation. 
* Dr. Granam, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, ex vena 
an idea, that the seeds were received from Ceylon. Mr. Coorgn's “shliging 
communication at the moment of going to press, enables me to correct this 
Fig. 1. A Flower-bud. 2. Flower. 3. Column of Stamens. 4. Pollen, 
magnified. 5. Part of an Ascidium, with the lid closed. 6, Part of another 
shewing a back view of a raised lid.—Natural size. A a 
