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tained in the drawers had become loaded with vapour from the Ce- 

 dar-wood, which coming into contact with oil or resin combined with 

 it to produce a varnish. 



Read a paper " On Edgeworthia, a new genus of Plants of the 

 Order My?'sinece." By Hugh Falconer, M.D., Superintendent of the 

 Hon. E. I. C.'s Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, communicated by 

 J. F. Royle, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



Dr. Falconer refers this new genus to the Tribe Theophrastece, and 

 characterizes it as follows : — 



Edgeworthia. 



Calyx 5-partitus; laciniis obtusis imbricatis. Corolla hypogyna, subcam- 

 panulata ; tubo brevi crasso, intus squamis 5 adnatis acuminatis, cum 

 limbi 5-partiti lobis acutis (in sestivatione contorto-imbricatis) alter- 

 nantibus, instructo. Stamina 5, corollae tubo inserta, ejus denique la- 

 ciniis opposita, exserta ; filamenta subulata, basi cum squamis conflu- 

 entia ; antberse extrorsae, versatiles, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscen- 

 tibus. Ovarium 1-loculare; placenta basilaris, parva; ovula pauca, 

 erecta, anatropa. Stylus elongatus, etiam in alabastro exsertus ; stigma 

 minutum, indivisum. Drupa mono- (raro di-) sperma. Semen pelta- 

 turn, bilo lato excavato umbilicatum ; testa ossea. Embryo intra albu- 

 men (cartilagineum) ruminatum excentricus, transverse arcuatus ; ra- 

 dicula infera. -— Arbuscula sempervirens ; foliis alternis exstipulatis, 

 solitariis v. fasciculatis, ellipticis, integerrimis, coriaceis, marginatis ; 

 ramis spinescentibus ; pedicellis bracteolatis ; floribus parvis subsessilibus 

 in capitula axillaria subumbellata dense coacervalis, chloroleucis ; drupa 

 eduli dulci. 



Obs. Genus inter Theophrasteas,Jacquiniceet Theophrastce juxta charac- 

 ters tribuales affine, sed ab utroque et a sociis albumine ruminato, 

 necnon inflorescentia distinctum. Notatu dignissimum, stylum etiam 

 in alabastro exsertum ! 



Edgeworthia buxifolia. 



Hab. in collibus aridis Provinciarum Taxilse et Peucelaotis in Bactria In- 

 feriore ; passim obvenit prope Peshawur, Cohaut et Attock, indigeiiis 

 Goorgoora dicta. Floret Februario ; fructus maturescit Julio. Semina 

 dura globosa vulgo in monilia precatoria conseruntur. 



Dr. Falconer describes Edgeworthia as one of the most character- 

 istic forms of Lower Affghanistan, where it grows associated with a 

 species of Dodonafa, Olea Laitoona, a species of Rhazya, and an un- 

 described Asclepiadeous genus. To the latter, which he refers to the 

 tribe of Periplocece, he gives the name of Campelepis, with the follow- 

 ing generic characters : — 



Campelepis. 



Corolla rotata, 5-fida ; fauce coronata, squamis 5 cum segmentis alternan- 

 tibus, brevibus, flexuoso-trilobis, confluentibus, medio aristatis, aristis 

 filiformibus erectis apice uncinatis ; tubo intiis squamulis totidem inclu- 

 sis, laceris, patentibus, staminibus oppositis, instructo. Filamenta di- 

 stincta, fauci infra squamas inserta ; antheraB sagittatse, apiculo acuto 

 terminatse, dorso barbatae, basi stigmatis medio agglutinatae. Masses 

 pollinis solitaria?, granulosa?, corpusculorum stigmatis appendiculis di- 

 latatis applicitae. Stigma dilatatum, muticum. Folliculi cylindracei, 

 laeves, divaricatissimi. Semina ad umbilicum comosa. — Frutex erectus, 

 ramosissimus, glaber quasi aphyllus; foliis nempc squammformibus, deci- 



