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them in the best possible state of preservation, and well selected, 
a few being only incomplete (in some oaks, willows, &c.) ; that the 
price is ten dollars a hundred, transportation from St. Louis to be 
paid by the subscriber ; and that a printed catalogue with descrip- 
tion of new species will be sent to every subscriber, similar in 
every respect to Lindheimer’s collection.” 
NELUMBIUM JAMAICENSE. 
We have elsewhere (‘Companion to the Botanical Magazine’ 
for the present month) noticed the rediscovery of the Neum- 
bium Jamaicense in Jamaica, which had remained a planta incog- 
nita to all botanists since it was first found by Dr. Patrick Browne 
nearly a century ago. An excellent account, with plates, has 
been printed and privately circulated by our valued friend, Dr. 
M’ Fadyen, of Kingston, Jamaica; and we are anxious to com- 
municate this interesting fact to the readers of our Journal, and 
further to state, that so far as can be judged from the description 
and from beautifully dried specimens, the species is scarcely differ- 
ent from the Ne/umbium luteum of the United States of America. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Propromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis; Auctore A. 
De CaNDOLLE. 
Ir is no trifling privilege to be able to commence a new year 
and the first number of the present volume, with the announce- 
ment of the Eleventh part of the inestimable Prodromus of De __ 
Candolle, continued, since the death of the lamented parent, by his — 
. son, Alphonse De Candolle. This part, or volume, as it really is, 
includes five families of plants, than which none more needed a 
