77A ACCOUNT OF THE DILPASAND. 
by Von Chamisso, Rupprecht, and the Imperial Russian Academy; 
from Greenland, by Hornemann, Vahl, jun., and Steetz; from Canada, 
Labrador, and the United States of North America, there are near 
2,000 species, supplied by Hooker, Barth (missionary Heldenberg), 
Bischoff, Waldmann, Tuckermann, Torrey, Asa Gray, Martens, Lindley, 
and Bentham (from California); from Mexico, by Schiede and the 
Baron Karwinski; from the West Indies, by Sieber, Lindley, and 
Von Barth ; from Surinam, by E. Meyer, Baron Rómer, Von Martius, 
and Baumann; from Brazil, by Déllinger, Beyrich, Sellow, Von 
Langsdorf, Von Martius, Schott, Pohl, and Mikan; from Chile, by 
Lindley, Cuming, Bertero, Póppig ; and lastly, from Peru, by Endlicher 
and Pôppig. 
From Australia, Sieber, Lindley, Loddiges, and Baron Hügel com- 
municated New Holland specimens; and Hooker, Lindley, and Baron 
Hügel, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and Norfolk Island plants.* 
(To be continued.) 
An Account of the DILPASAND, a kind of Vegetable Marrow ; by J. 
ELLERTON Stocks, M.D., F.L.S., Assistant-Surgeon on the Bombay 
Establishment. 
Tas. III. 
Citrullus fistulosus (J. E. S.) ; caule petiolisque fistulosis, foliis quin- 
quenervibus quinquelobatis, cirrhis tri-quinquefidis, pepone napiformi 
concolore. 
Descr. Stems diffuse, stout, fistulous, with the cavity stellate in 
cross section, owing to the prominence towards the centre of five 
bundles of vessels. Sap mucilaginous. Young shoots densely villous 
with long soft spreading hairs, between which is a more minute glan- 
dular, viscid, and odorous pubescence, which disappears with age. 
Older stems with scabrous and more scattered hairs, chiefly confined 
to five prominent and shining bands, between which the surface is 
__ ™ In general, this herbarium is richer in ic than in cryptogamic plants, 
although it is of much value even in this Lans is the Pin pce col- 
lection of Mosses, extending to 700 species, made by the distinguished anatomist and 
physiologist Déllinger, during a series of thirty years, and bequeathed by will to 
Zucearini. (Here follow some details of the contents of this collection, and of the 
wee gathered by Zuccarini himself or presented by his friends and correspon- 
