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fluitans. The Cinnamon (p. 90) can scarcely be said to resemble the 
“common Laurel (Cerasus Laurocerasus) very much:" the resem- 
blance is as great (more so in the flowers) to the common Sweet Bay, - 
which is a kind of Laurel, and fragrant too, as so many of the Laurels 
are.—In the Sassafras-nuts (p. 94) it cannot be the mark of the em- 
bryo indented on the cotyledons, but the radicle or plumule, or both, 
—for the cotyledons are part of the embryo. In the Turkish collection 
of Raw Produce at the Great Exhibition, a curious seed, “ Kenguel” 
(p. 133), was ‘shown as roasted and used like Coffee. “ Te were the 
seeds of a species of Gumillea (Nat. Ord. Cunoniacee).” What we 
saw under that name in that collection were assuredly the seeds of a 
Compositous plant, Gundelia, G. Tournefortii—The East India Madder 
(Rubia Munjista), p. 211, is as much one of the Galiacee (not the 
group “ Cinchonacee ”) as the Rubia tinctorum (see p. 209) : it would be 
very strange if it were not.— Saffron (p. 217) is not the dried *' pistils a 
of the common Crocus (Crocus sativus), but the dried stigmas and part 
of the style. At Tab. XIII., both in the plate and in the description, 
fig. 69 is erroneously called ** Orchella-weed,” and fig. 70 the Cudbear : 
the reverse is the fact.— Tus, or Frankincense, is said to be the tur- 
pentine of Abies resine: an error probably originating in a synonym of 
the Frankincense given in Dr. Pereira’s Materia Medica, ** Adietis re- 
sina ” (resin of Spruce); “spontaneous exudation (Dr. Pereira conti- 
nues) of Abies excelsa."— Singapore ** Vegetable Tallow ” is said (p. 280) - 
to be obtained from the fruit of some plants of the Natural Order Dip- 
teracee (Dipterocarpee ?).—Rice-paper “is now decided by the officers 
of Kew Gardens (p. 295) to be the produce of Aralia papyrifera (Nat. 
Ord. -Araliacee), called in China Zaccada.” The Taccada, a plant of 
the Malay Archipelago, is a Scevola, S. Taccada, Roxb. (probably not 
distinct from S. Kónigii), of the Nat. Ord. Goodenoviee. The pith is 
said “to be pared in the same way the ancients employed in preparing 
their pithy stem of the Papyrus Rush (Papyrus antiquorum):” is there 
any authority for such a statement?—Jak or Jack-wood (p. 381) is 
called, properly enough, Artocarpus integrifolia, but said to be “from 
the Breadfruit-tree,” vete is Artocarpus incisa. Cocus or Kokka, Le- 
pidostachys Roxburgii, is an East Indian wood, not “from Cuba and 
the West Indian Islands.” Notwithstanding the above criticisms, we _ 
are sure Mr. Archer has rendered good service to the cause of Econo- 
mie ape by the publication of this volume. 
