believed. .' Lapeyroufe has fought for their diftlngiijflijng 

 marks in the figure, the proportion, and the rektion of the 

 parts of fru<Slifi cation : he has divided the whole genus into 

 feveral natural groupes, and colleded from the works of the 

 old botauifts, and in their herbajs, a mqre corred fynonymy 

 than any hitherto obtaintid. 



Zoologj'. — L^cepede has defcribed ^ fierpent hitherto tia-* 

 Jcnovvn to naturalifts ; he has formed of it a genuj to which 

 he gives the name of erpeton tmtaculatum. Its chara£ters 

 are, that it has ,^ row of large fcalcs below the body, and the 

 lawyer pajt of the tail covered with fmall feales like thofe of 

 the back. 



Cuvier has made us acquainted with the prefent ftate of 

 his refearc^^cs in regard to quadrupeds ; he has now found 

 twenty-three kinds of thofe animals, none of which has ever 

 beei> fe$n alive on the earth. 



MediciTt^^—r-HAWc has given an account of the fymptoms 

 pf that contagious malady which lately occaiioned fo much 

 devaftation in Spain. He has proved that it was not the 

 plague common in the Levant, but that malady known ia 

 America under the name of the yellow fever. 



Lafoffe has read obfer\'ations on different ligaments ia 

 man and aniuials; and by reafoning and pra<9:ical example^ 

 has fhown that there are cafps in which the cutting of thefe 

 Jigaments may be highly advantageous. 



PHII-OMATIC SOCIETY. ^ 



Labillardicre read a memoir o\\ two fpecies of the litchi 

 of the Moluccas. The two fpecies here defcribed are ori.; 

 ginally from China, and were introduced into the Moluccas 

 by the Chinefe, who inhabit thefe iflands. One of them, 

 called ramboutan by the Malays, is the nephelium lappaceum 

 Linn.; the other, which they call ramhutan-ake, is unknown 

 to botanifts. 



The ncphelium was fo little known that it has been fuccefi 

 lively clafled among the. compojita^^ i\\*^ amentace^y and the 

 euphorbia. Labillardicre proves that it belongs to the family 

 of i\\^ fafonaruc ; and he even unites it to the genus of the 

 iitchi. Its calyx has four or five divifions covered witlt. 



hair. 



