54 A NEW SPECIES OF DEPARIA. 
5-lobis subtus præcipue (junioribus totis) stellato-subferrugineo-to- 
mentosis, lobis lateralibus bilobis terminali trilobo, omnibus aeutis 
serratis, petiolo basi stipulis 2 magnis subulatis. (Tas. I, IL.) 
Has. Swampy ground in the northern parts of the island of Formosa. 
The flowers and fruit are yet unknown to us. And with regard to 
the plant itself, we know very little more than what the figures exhibit. 
Our principal figure is copied from Mr. Reeves’s Chinese drawing, the 
fidelity of which we have tested by comparison with our dried specimens. 
The root is thick and fusiform, slightly divided, equally woody with the 
stem. Our representation of that is taken from the lower part of our 
dead plant, cut through transversely end vertically. Our larger stem 
above mentioned exhibits exactly the same characters; it is striated or 
furrowed, and marked with numerous rings, the scars whence leaves have 
fallen. A section exhibits a moderately thick bark, a thicker circle of 
pale wood, within the tube is occupied by the white pith descending 
almost into the root. In the thicker stems, the pith easily separates 
from the wood, but with a rather rusty-coloured furrowed coat, which 
seems to take this latter character from so many ridges on the inside of 
the wood. It is this pith, freed from the external surface, which a - 
Chinaman is represented in the act of cutting into paper, in our Vol. 
Il. Tab. IX. Among our numerous samples of the pith (thus pre- 
pared and cut into perfect cylinders) some are uniform (or solid, if I may 
. use the term), while others are furnished with cavities divided into 
 eompartments by entire, or more or less ragged septa. These cavities, 
when present, must diminish the size of the paper in a given cylinder of 
pith. Fig. 2 shows a septum in the transverse section; and fig. 3, 
. cavities and septa in a longitudinal section. Fig. 4 and 5 are magni- 
. fied, 4 being a transverse section, and 5 a longitudinal section, of this 
— delicate cellular substance. 
zs = * Notice of a new species of DEPARIA, discovered by Mm. CHARLES 
Moore, i» New Caledonia. 
(Tas. III.) 
Captain Erskine,-of H.M.S. Havana, was so kind as to invite Mr. 
Moore, the active Curator of the Government Botanical Garden at 
Sydney, to accompany him on a voyage to New Caledonia, and to give 
him every facility for collecting plants,—and we know how much is in 
