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valuable and disinterested labours, in elaborating the materials of the 
present work. The previous portions in all contained forty-five plates. 
The forty-sixth plate, the first of the new fasciculus, is devoted to 
Acanthophora fragrans, Wall. The genus is referred by Mr. Brown to 
Tiliacee rather than to Buttneriacee as originally defined by that 
author; but this distinguished botanist observes that these two fami- 
lies pass into each other.—Tab. 47, Sarcostigma (Wight et Arn.) Hors- 
fieldii, Br.—Tab. 48, Jodes ovalis, Bl., here referred by Mr. Brown to 
Phytocrenee, Arn. (along with Phytocrene, Wall., Nansiatum, Buch., 
Ham., Miguelia, Meisn., Jenkinsia, Griff., and as “ Phytocreneis affine 
genus," Pyrenacantha, Hook.)—Tab. 49, Cardiopteris lobata, Wall. 
(C. Javanica, Br., Peripterygium quinquelobum, Hassk .), a remarkable 
Javanese climbing annual, with fruit at first sight resembling Dioscorea, 
whose natural affinities have been a subject much discussed of late. 
Mr. Brown considers it “an isolated genus or family, to be placed at 
no great distance from Phytocrenee.”—Tab. 50, Bennettia Javanica, Br. 
This new genus of Mr. Brown has been, with his permission, adopted 
by Dr. Blume, and by Dr. Wallich (Cat. of E. Ind. Pl.), who has dis- 
tributed six Malayan species distinct from the present one. It bears ` 
the same relation to Antidesmee, which the polypetalous genera in 
Euphorbiacee bear to the apetalous ones of that family. 
De Vriese, W. H., Dr. and Professor: Descriptions et Figures des 
Plantes nouvelles et rares du Jardin Botanique de l'Université de 
Leide et des principaux Jardins du Royaume des Pays Bas. Livr. 2. 
Leyden. Large folio. Five highly-finished and coloured Plates. 
This is a work of luxury and of science. We had formerly occasion - 
to notice the first fasciculus, and we have now the pleasure of an- - 
nouncing a second, rivalling, if not surpassing, the former in the - 
beauty and fidelity of the plates. The two first plates and description — 
are devoted to Cycas Rumphii, Miq. (C. circinalis, Roæb.), the species 
figured in Rumph. Herb. Amb, vol. i. t. 22 and 28, and which is thus — 
distinguished :—“ C. frondium stipite terete spinuloso ; foliis lanceolato- | 
elongato-linearibus, rigido-acuminatis, subfalcatis ; cono masculino cy- 
lindrico, pedicellato ; squamis in parte antherifera cuneatis, apice nudo — 
triangulari breviore acumine nonnunquam caduco instructis, externe ——— 
fulvo-tomentosis; foliis carpellaribus 3-5-ovulatis, lamina rhombea - 
