404 Lieut.-Col. Madden on some Plants 



with transversely wrinkled elytra, but smaller than the smallest 

 individuals of that species, and easily distinguished by the wholly 

 different form of the antennae, by the gradually narrowed and 

 not truncate elytra, and the stronger more distant transverse 

 wrinkling. The club of the antennae is as a rule somewhat 

 darker, the last joint somewhat larger than the preceding, cone- 

 shaped, acuminate. 



Kraatz says that it is taken near Berlin in loose sand at the 

 foot of old oak-trees, and that it is frequent in moors. 



[To be continued.] 



XX XIV. — Elucidation of some Plants mentioned in Dr. Francis 

 Hamilton's Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. By Lieut.-Col. 

 Madden, F.R.S.E., President of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh*. 



The possession by the University of Edinburgh of the duplicate 

 herbarium (unfortunately incomplete) and the valuable MS. 

 Catalogue of the Plants collected in Nepal and other parts of 

 India by the late Dr. Francis Hamilton (formerly Buchanan), 

 has recently afforded me the opportunity of comparing them 

 with some which he has introduced into his 'Account of Nepal,' 

 only, or chiefly, by their vernacular designations, which are of 

 no assistance to the English reader. Of the result of this 

 examination I purpose to submit a short statement to the Bo- 

 tanical Society, to the members of which it may prove the more 

 interesting from the fact that, in several cases, the scientific 

 names have not hitherto been given in any, even the latest, 

 works on Indian Botany which have fallen under my notice, 

 although the plants are well known and of general utility 

 in India. Nor will it be considered inconsistent with the 

 object of our meetings, to dedicate a brief space to an in- 

 quiry into the botany of a district which engaged the in- 

 terest and employed the time of this accomplished naturalist f, 



* Read to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, June 12, 1856. The 

 death of the author having occurred since this paper was read before 

 the Botanical Society, it has been printed without the benefit of his cor- 

 rections. 



t The genus Hamiltonia, of the order Cinchonaceae, was devoted by 

 Roxburgh to the memory of this " illustrious peregrinator," as he is called 

 by D. Don. H. suaveolens is a shrub of the Rajmahal and other hills of 

 Behar ; and a very beautiful azure-blue variety abounds all along the base 

 of the Himalaya, the H. azurea of Wallich, scabra of D. Don, propinqua 

 of Jacquemont. The flowers are sweetly fragrant till bruised, when they 

 exhale a most fcetid odour, from which the plant derives its Kumaon name 



