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a notice of the properties of seventy indigenous plants, which 
have been used as remedies by the colonists at the Cape of Good 
Hope, arranged according to the natural system of De Candolle. 
“Tn a country like South Africa,” says the author, “which is even 
now but thinly populated, and where the inhabitants in some parts 
are often deprived of medical aid, it is not to be wondered at that 
they are obliged to try the efficacy of the different remedies with- 
in their reach. Many a plant has thus been used here as a medi- 
cine in various diseases, as well by the savage, as by the colonist 
living in the more remote districts, and some of these drugs have 
already found their way into Europe.” Such a little work from 
the pen of an accomplished practitioner cannot fail to be of great 
service to the colony, and it ought to be largely distributed, espe- 
cially in the districts remote from towns. 
Revisio Critica OASUARINARUM ; auctore F. A. G. MIQUEL, Insti- 
tuti Regii Socio; cum tabulis xu. Amstelodami, 1848. 4to. 
The able author here enters into a critical examination of the 
Casuarina ; followed by a “Conspectus specierum," and then by 
a full botanical history of thirty-three species, accompanied by a 
great number of illustrative figures, analyses, &c., on twelve folio 
plates. Dr. Miquel has spared no pains to render this mono- 
graph as perfect as possible, and besides the specimens in his own 
Herbarium, has had the use of the whole of the Hookerian col- 
lection, so rich in ARR species. 
