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not only a broad vitta in each vallecula, but moreover a 
thinner one under each jugum. The fruit is 3 lines long 
and about 12 line in diameter; it differs from the character 
given by De Candolle only in the margins of the mericarpia 
being not attenuated, but on the contrary somewhat thick- 
ened and but little prominent, almost in the shape of a blunt 
nerve. The umbelle are even larger than in B. Galbanum, 
the radii measuring, when in fruit, 11 to upwards of 2 inches, 
and the pedicels 5-6 lines. The folioles of the involucre 
scarcely exceed 3 lines in length, and, at the base, 1 line in 
breadth. The leaves attain almost one foot in length, and 
their lowermost divisions, which originate with long petioles 
from the very top of the vagina, vary in length from 4 to 10 
inches. The lacinule in form and size resemble exactly those 
of Peucedanum officinale, (Schkuhr Handb. t. 63.)—Evi- 
dently this plant is a new species of Budon, widely different 
from the three hitherto described. 
Obs. Under Bubon gummiferum L., Ecklon (enum. p. 353,) 
quotes his specimens distributed by the Unio itineraria under 
No. 563; butthese, according to those of my own herbarium 
derived from the same source, are quite different, not at 
all resembling Commelya's figure above quoted, and most 
certainly belong to Peucedanum abbreviatum, E. Mey. (see 
above n. 22.) 
27. Hermas villosa, Thunb. DC. prodr. 4, p. 242.—In 
summitate Montis Tafelberg, (III. A. e.) Mart. 1840. Krauss, 
n. 1194. 
28. H. capitata, Linn. fil. DC. l. c.—Cum preced. Krauss, 
n. 1195. 
HAMAMELIDE.JE. 
1. Trichocladus peltatus, n. sp. ; ramis ad nodos compressis 
cum gemmis foliorumque nervis subtus fusco-villosis ; foliis 
oppositis, peltatis, oblongis ovatisve, acuminatis, basi rotun- 
datis v. leviter cordatis, subtus molliter stellato-pilosis, supra 
