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lanceolatis, lineari-acuminatis, oblique sessilibus, margine 
exteriori decurrenti : floribus axillaribus, solitariis, coeruleis ; 
nuculis distinctis 35, parvis, foveolatis.—Chile ad Concep- 
cionem : (v. s. in Herb. Hooker, n. 1322.) 
(To be continued.) 
The late Mr. GRIFFITH. 
(The following notice of this truly accomplished and la- 
mented Botanist is from the Transactions of the Royal 
Asiatic Society for June, 1845.) 
_ Mr. Griffith was one of the most accomplished botanis 
. Of our day; with the most accurate and extensive acquisi- 
. tion of learning in his department, he combined such a 
. Spirit of activity and enterprise as has been rarely equalled, 
_ great talents, and a very remarkable power of labour, arrange- 
. Ment, and application. He was born in the year 1810, and 
. Was educated at the London University. He went out to 
India, as an assistant-surgeon on the Madras Establishment, 
_ Where he arrived on the 24th September 1832, and was 
. Shortly afterwards selected by the Bengal Government to 
 fxamine the botany of the Tenasserim Provinces. He was, 
. ^ 1835, deputed to Assam, with Dr. M'Clelland, for the 
. Purpose of assisting Dr. Wallich in his inspection of the 
. Stowth of the Tea plant in Assam, and proceeded from 
. thence, in company with Dr. Bayfield, to the then unex- 
. Plored tracts which lie between Suddiya and Ava, upon the 
. Xtreme frontier of our Eastern territory. In 1837 he ac- 
. Companied Captain Pemberton on his mission to the wild 
. Countries of Boutan, and two years after was sent, with the 
. "my of the Indus, to prosecute inquiries into the botany of - 
: Afghanistan. In 1841 he was appointed to the medical 
5 duties of Malacca. Upon Dr. Wallich's absence, owing to 
illness, at the Cape, Mr. Griffith was intrusted with the super- 
‘Mtendence of the Botanical Garden at Calcutta, and with 
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