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at least, is cultivated in England,) the Melastomacee, the 
Vellosice, (of which remarkable genus 15 species are enum- 
erated,) the Auguste (among the Rubiaceæ, so called in 
compliment to Caroline Augusta, the reigning empress of 
Austria,) the Ferdinanduse, (a Bignoniaceous genus, hon- 
oured by the name of the hereditary prince of Austria,) the 
Vochysice, the Lobelic, and lastly, what have just reached us, 
in the concluding fasciculus of thework, the La/oensia and 
the Coutourea pubescens. Such publications as we have now 
alluded to, fostered, as they are, by imperial patronage, can- 
not fail to give a stimulus to the science in the Austrian 
dominions. 
The ** Meletemata Botanica," and the ** Prodromus Flore 
Norfolkice,” have just been obligingly communicated to us 
by their authors from Vienna. The former is in folio, and 
the first fasciculus, as is well expressed by the name,* con- 
tains a most complete analysis and very full descriptions of 
new species, together with remarks upon other genera belong- 
ing to the Orders under consideration, by Henry Schott and 
Stephan Endlicher. It is dedicated to the excellent Wallich. 
The two first genera, Lophophytum and Scybalium, belong to 
the Balanophorec of Richard: and here the author has taken 
the opportunity of offering a new arrangement of that and 
other allied Orders: which he includes under the class of 
RuizaxTHEX ( Pseudocotyledonec sexuales, in aliarum stirpium 
radicibus parasitice.)— Orv. I. BALANOPHOREÆ. 1. Lopho- 
phytum, Schott and Endl. 2. Sarcophyte, Sparrm. 3. Cyno- 
morium. 4. Helosis. 5. Scybalium, Schott. 6. Langsdorffia. 
T. Balanophora.— On». II. CrriNEX. 8. Cytinus L. 
9. Hypolepis, Pers. 10. Aphyteia, L. (Hydnora, Th.) 11. 
Apodanthes, Poit.—Orp. III. Rarriestacex. 17. Brug 
mansia, Blum. 13. Raffesia, Br. 
From the Balanophorec, Schott is naturallyled on to offer 
* McAcrnua, exercitatio, opus elaboratum cura. 
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