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quito shore for anointing the hair, and is now used for the like 
purpose, and sold in the shops in England ; in one case with the name 
of “ Perry and Co.’s Medicated Balm, under the patronage of the 
Royal Family." Our Museum of the Kew Gardens possesses the fruit 
and seeds of this plant, obligingly sent by W. D. Christie, Esq., from 
the Mosquito country; and Miss Daniell, of Parson's Green, Fulham, 
possesses dried flowers of the same plant: from these our figures have 
been taken, and these have sufficed to enable Mr. Bentham to determine 
that it is a new species of the genus, D. oleifera, Benth. ; one of eight ` 
now known to that gentleman, and mentioned at p. 235 of the present 
volume. With such materials our friend has not ventured to form a 
specific character. The distinctions at present known consist in the 
very large glandular dots on the calyx, the very great size of the two 
calycine segments, and the inodorous seeds. These characters we shall 
provisionally adopt, and we doubt not that this imperfect account of a 
useful plant will be a means of eliciting further information and pro- 
curing more perfect specimens than we yet possess. 
Dipteryx oleifera; calycis lobis duobus maximis grosse copiose re- 
sinoso-punctatis, seminibus inodoratis. 
D. oleifera, Benth. in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc., supra, p. 235. 
Has. Mosquito shore. ** Eboe-tree " of the natives. 
Tas. VII. Fig. 1, 2. Flower, nat. size; fig. 3, large lobes of the 
calyx ; fig. 4, carina, and fig. 5, ale of the corolla, magnified ; fig. 6, 
fruit; fig. 7, the same laid open, showing the insertion of the seed ; 
fig. 8, transverse section of ditto; figs. 9, 10, embryo; fig. 11, 
embryo, with one cotyledon removed, showing the plumule "nd 
. radicle tat. size. 
CHINESE * Ricg-PaPEn." 
(Tas. VIL, IX.) 
We are not yet prepared to state what is the plant which yields the beau- 
tiful and now well-known substance called Rice-paper; but, thanks to the 
.. queries inserted from time to time in our * Journal of Botany,’ and to 
_ the exertions made by our numerous friends to contribute to the Museum 
.. ef Economic Botany, now so successfully forming at the Royal Gardens 
.. ofKew,we have advanced more than one step towards such a knowledge. 
Ina late number (p. 27 of the present volume) we were enabled to give 
some interesting information relative to the “ Rice-paper,” through the 
