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becomes angulated, and even here and there leaves occur which exhibit 
small teeth. 
“TV, MIKANIA TLALIXCOYAN, La Llave. 
“ Folia oblonga, cordato-hastata, integra, glabra, nervis quinque striatis, 
lobis cordatis magnis divaricatis. Vulgo dicitur, * Huaco.’ —La 
Llave, 1. c. p. 299. 
“This fourth species, of which I have only seen imperfect speci- 
mens without flower, is found at Tlalixcoyan, in the canton of Vera 
Cruz. On chewing its leaves a slight pungency is perceived, which is 
succeeded by an aromatic tingling bitter (un amargo aromatico y 
espirituoso), and leaves the taste of cloves.''* 
Tur RICE-PAPER PLANT. 
In our last notice of the Rice-Paper Plantf, we announced the wel- 
come intelligence of the arrival at the Royal Gardens, from Hongkong, 
of two living specimens (see Vol. IV. p. 347) through the exertions of 
the Messrs. Bowrings, father and son. These continue in a flourishing 
condition. The next mail from China brought us an interesting Report, 
printed in the “China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society's Trans- 
actions," from the pen of J. C. Bowring, Esq., “On the Rice-Paper 
Plant and its uses.” Ata previous meeting of the Society, Mr. Bow- 
ring had the high gratification of exhibiting a living specimen of the 
plant; and having since then, he observes, “ obtained through Mr. Sin- 
clair, the interpreter to the Fuh-chow consulate, some interesting in- 
formation on the subject of it, I now beg tolay the same before the 
Society." 
After alluding to the application that was made by us, he continues: — . 
* Within a few weeks from the receipt of this letter, the kind exer- 
tions of the late Mr. G. G. Sullivan, H.B.M. Consul at Amoy, suc- 
* We quite agree with Mr. Seemann that such miserable characters of plants 
pidii ke be of medical interest, “had better have been left unpublished."—E. 
+ Mr. George Bennett has recently written to me from Australia, and referred me 
to a figure of the Rice-Paper Plant which he has published in the second volume of 
* Wanderings in New Wales,' and of which I was not before aware. It is indeed 
an accurate representation of the true plant, from a drawing then in the possession 
of Mr. Beale at Canton, and is clearly identical with the drawing I have mentioned 
at our vol. ii. p. 29. Mr. Bennett’s is the first published figure of the plant,—Ep. 
