656 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



***** Spiranthera. 



Flores racemosi ; antherse post anthesim subtortiles, loculis 

 longitudine tota dehiscentibus ; stylus subindivisus. Sp. 

 Africse occidentalis tropicee. 

 20. O. dubia, Guill. et Perrot. Fl. Seneg. 1, p. 137, tab. 3£. 

 Hab. In Senegambia, ad ripas Hum. Casamancise, prope 

 Itou. Perrot. Heudel. coll. n. 903 ; etiam in regno Oware 

 v. regn. Benin, leg. Palis. Beauv. ex Guill. et Perrot. 

 Obs. Dans la description de cette espece, il est dit que 

 ses feuilles sont persistantes ; je n'oserais assurer le con- 

 traire, n'ayant jamais vu la plante vivante. Cependant 

 les echantillons de M. Heudelot ne pre'sentent sur la meme 

 branche, d'ou. nalt une grappe de fleurs, qu'une simple pousse 

 dont les feuilles sont a demi developpees. 



(To be continued.) 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Extracted from a Letter from Dr. Ludwig Leickhardt* 

 of New Holland to M. Durando, of Paris. 



Communicated by P. B. Webb, Esq. 



Cambden, May 20, 1846. 



My dear friend, 



You have, no doubt, noticed and regretted my long silence. 

 There was no post to bring me your letters in the wilderness 

 of Australia, through which I was endeavouring to penetrate 



* See a letter written by the same enterprizing naturalist and traveller, 

 previous to this most adventurous journey, given in our last vol. p. 278. 



