528 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME PLANTS 
quarundam simulantibus.—Dicatum memorie beat. Abbatis 
Durand, Monspessulano, qui Floram Hispaniæ australis et 
Mauritaniæ summa solertia exploravit. 
Durandea serrata, Planch. 
Has. in Austro-Caledonia, Labill. in herb. Hook. a cl. Webb 
comm. 
Folia cire. 2-22 poll. longa, 14-18 lin. lata, basi acuta; petiolus 
gracilis, 3—4 lin. longus, supra leviter canaliculatus ; racemi 
foliis breviores, rachi compresso-angulata, hinc inde ramulos 
2-3 breves exserens, vel simplex; calycis laciniæ obtusissimæ 
valde imbricate, nigrescentes, marginibus pallidioribus subsca- 
riosæ ; petala in flore non plane evoluto, calyce non duplo-lon- 
giora crassiuscula, siccitate nigro-rubentia. 
Sect. III. ANISADENIEZÆ, Planch. 
(Vide supra, vol. VI. p. 594.) 
Gen. unicum : ANISADENIA, Wall. cat. no. 1510. 
Meisn. Gen. comment. p. 96.—Fenzl. Darst. und Erlaxt. vier 
POL Qa Pflanz. Gatt. (ete.) p. 21. 
A. saratahs, Wall. 
Has. in Napalia ad rupes montis Sheopore anno 1821. Wall in 
herb. Hook. (cum charactere generico.) 
Anisadenia saxatilis, Wall.—Fenzl.1. c. p. 22. tab. IIT. (icon opt.) 
Descriptions of some plants new to the Berrisa Fiora; by 
WiruiM Mirren, A. L. S. . 
The plants now described, have not, so far as I am aware, been 
noticed by any writers on British Botany, and I have here given a 
somewhat more lengthened description of them than they perhaps 
require, chiefly, that they may be investigated when growing in 
different situations; for I have little doubt that some of them will 
be found not very rare. It is only by careful observation of plants 
when under the influence of different circumstances that a correct 
judgment can be pronounced on their specific value; and I am 
