132 Bibliographical Notices, 



Puka-Puka or Buka-buka, indig. R. Cunningham. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). Queen Charlotte's Sound.— 17G9, Sir Jos. 

 Banks. (Northern Island.) River sides, Bay of Islands. — 182G, A. Cun- 

 ningham. Wangaroa. — 1834, R. Cunningham, 



Obs. Arbor 10 — 15 pedalis. 



The natives call a letter or paper Buka-Buka, from the English 

 word book, a quantity of paper bound together ; so, where paper has 

 been wanting to write a letter, the ample leaf of this plant has been 

 used in New Zealand by Europeans, the white underside, even in 

 its recent state, taking ink or diluted pigment extremely well ; 

 hence the modern name of the plant by the natives Buka-Buka ! 



464. B. rotundifolia, paniculis paucifloris foliis petiolatis ovato-subrotun- 

 dis integerrimis subtus tomentosis. Forst. Char. Gen. n. 2. — Cineraria ro- 

 tundifolia. Forst. Prodr. n. 294. Willd. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 254. 



New Zealand (Middle Island.) Dusky Bay.— 1773, G. Forsler. 



465. B. Rani ; paniculis ramosis multifloris terminalibus, foliis petiolatis 

 lato-ellipticis acuminatis repando-serratis, supra glabris, subtus niveo-tomen- 

 tosis, caule arboreo. 



Rani, incol. Rich. Cunningham. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of rivers, Bay of Islands, &c. — 

 1834, R. Cunningham. 



Obs. Arbor ssepe 3-orgyalis et ultra, ramosus ; rami valde patentes. Folia 

 alterna, elliptica, grosse serrata, subrepanda 2 — 4 pollicaria. Petioli pa- 

 tentes vix longitudine dimidii folii, supra canaliculati. 



The plumose pappus, the short rays of the female florets, and the 

 form of the achenium, appear sufficient to justify the separation of 

 these plants from Cineraria, to which Forster referred them in his 

 * Prodromus', some years after he had published the genus Brachy- 

 glottis, which Persoon thinks ought perhaps (for the above reason) 

 to be restored, although Forster's second view has been adopted by 

 Willdenow. Lessingmore recently, (1832) whose Synopsis Compos, 

 appears now to be the text-book in this vast tribe of plants, consi- 

 ders them species of Senecio. He says, " Genus Br achy glottis, 

 Forster's (pappo plumoso) Jacobma, Thunb., generaque Cassiniana, 

 Grammarthion, Dorobcea, Obojcea (Senecionis seu 2. L. radio revo- 

 luto), &c. non sunt separatu dignse" ab Senecione. 

 [To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa ; consisting chiefly of 

 Figures and Descriptions of the objects of Natural History collected 

 during an Expedition into the interior of South Africa in the years 

 1834, 1835, and 1836, fitted out by the " Cape of Good Hope As- 



