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arranged in whorls.* Cankrienia chrysantha (not Cancrinia chryso- 
cephala, Karel. et Kiril). Umbellifere are undertaken by Molken- 
boer, and it is curious that of the sixteen species noticed, only one, the 
remarkable Horsfieldia, should exhibit any unusual form : all the other 
fifteen belong to well-known genera common to Europe; viz., Hydro- 
cotyle, Sanicula, Falcaria, Pimpinella, Foniculum, and Coriandrum. 
Aroideæ axe elaborated by De Vriese, and present three new species in 
the genus Pothos. 
RHODODENDRONS oF SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, dy Dr. Josgeu. HOOKER ; 
Fase. II. Imperial folio. 
Messrs. Reeve and Benham have recently published a second fasci- 
culus of this work, containing ten species, quite equal in beauty to 
those of the first number, and the plates are nearly finished, of a third 
and last fasciculus, of ten more species. 
The Victoria REGIA, beautifully illustrated with four coloured plates, 
by Mr. Firen ; the descriptive portion by Sin W. J. HOOKER. 
This is another splendid work, in elephant folio, which has. issued 
from the press of Messrs. Reeve and Benham. The figures are splen- 
didly executed by Mr. Fitch, from drawings made from the living 
plants partly at Sion and partly at Kew. 
Icones Plantarum ; by Sır W. J. HOOKER. 
This work, which has extended to eight volumes, each of 100 plates of 
rare or little-known plants in the author’s herbarium, and which has been 
discontinued for a period of more than twelve months, owing to cireum- 
stances over which the author had no control, will now be published by 
Messrs. Reeve and Benham, and will appear in monthly numbers, each 
number containing eight plates. The first of them will appear on the 
first day of next month. 3 
* Among the numerous drawings recently sent home by Dr. Hooker, from Sik- 
kim-Himalaya, is one of a yellow Primula, that vies with this in size (the flowers, 
indeed, are larger, but not whorled), of which Dr. Hooker says, “ The pride of all the 
ine Primulas : inhabits wet, boggy places at elevations of from 12-17,000 feet, 
at Lachen and Lachoong, covering acres with a golden carpet, in May and June.” 
