192 NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
this country by the beginning of the present year (1852); but circum- 
stances, with which the public have no concern, induce him, we learn, 
to remain in the East till the spring of 1853. No member of the 
Imp. Soc. Nat. Cur. ever merited better the appellation of “nunquam 
otiosus" than this modern Roxburgh, Dr. Wight; and we sincerely 
trust, that although for the next year other duties must interfere with 
his botanical ones, he may return to his native country, with health 
unimpaired, to distribute with princely liberality the enormous col- 
lection he has now amassed, no portion of which has been sent to 
Europe, we believe, since 1837. 
Wieur: Illustrations of Indian Botany. 2 vols., 4to, with numerous 
Plates. Madras. 
While noticing the * Icones Plantarum,’ we must not omit all men- 
tion of the no less well-executed * Illustrations’ of the same author, 
now extended to 2 vols. 4to, with 182 plates, coloured; many of these 
plates containing each an analysis of a considerable number of Genera, 
so that the work contains a great deal more than it promises, Viz.,— 
* Figures illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian plants 
described in the author's ‘ Prodromus Flore Indis Orientalis," with 
observations on their botanical relations, economical uses, and medici- 
nal properties; including descriptions of recently discovered or im- 
perfectly known plants.” With such a mass of information, pictorial 
and descriptive, it is quite clear that the * Illustrations" of Dr. Wight 
are as indispensable as the ‘Icones, and its publication adds fresh 
laurels to his name. Already, following the arrangement of De Can- 
dolle, the author has reached to the 124th Order, Sa/vadoraceæ. 
. De CawpoLLE: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. 
| Part I. of Vol. XIII. 
We are glad to learn that the first part of the 13th volume of this 
invaluable work, containing the Solanaceg, by Dunal, and the Planta- 
gineæ, by Decaisne, has at length appeared. The second part of Vol. 
XIII. (including five orders of Monochlamydeæ), qur readers are aware, 
was published in 1849. 
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