Mr. Roscor’s New Arrangement of the Scitaminee. — 381 
readers, that the characters of many of these plants still remained 
to be more accurately determined, by those who might have an 
opportunity of inspecting living specimens ; an admonition which 
every colit editor of his Works has SEPP it eorf to 
rE ti WT R 
About the year, 1783, a veni dH ARES in dditibs "was ind 
to the order of Scitaminean plants, by the labours of Kenig;: 
who, in his researches through various parts of the East, disco- 
vered many. plants of this tribe, of which he communicated full 
descriptions to his anand: Re b z | poesi i in the. third 
" ants +, thought | it. necessar essa y to. attempt a new one, from: the 
descriptions of his friend ; although he had never seen even the 
dried tpecenenn The result. is. suph; as might have pend eX- 
d die ; Be of gem padija pub qe tas CER which dna p 
ever, been recognised by. Willdenow,.as the latest im posant 
on this clas. . ' 
In one respect Retzius is entitled to co nmendati 
"Quid centi ego. determinem, qii, planas has 5 neguidem si siccatas s vidi” » Ec» de 
Probe video, nihil absolute ceni de horum generum characteribus. minari 
