12 Dr. Miquel on some Plants from Surinam. 



toid quadrupeds which formerly existed in Australia must then 

 have afforded the requisite conditions for a greater abundance 

 of such Coleoptera. These and other speculations are natu- 

 rally suggested by the highly interesting fossils here described. 

 The great importance of such organic remains will be obvious 

 from the few inferences which have been here briefly noted : 

 our obligations to the enlightened collector and transmitter 

 of the Mastodontoid fossils are great, and the arrival of ad- 

 ditional facts and specimens will be most earnestly welcomed. 

 I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 



Your most obedient servant, 



Richard Owen. 



London, Nov. 1st, 1842. 



IV. — Observations dequibusdam Plantis Surinamensibus, 

 Scripsit Dr. F. A. G. Miquel. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



GENTLEMEN, Rotterdam, Dec. 1, 1842. 



I take the liberty to offer you a botanical paper on some 

 plants of Surinam, and to pray you to give it a place in your 

 6 Annals and Magazine of Nat. History/ which journal I have 

 for several years read with the greatest interest. 



Believe me to be, your obedient Servant, 



F. A. G. Miquel. 



COMBRETACE^. 



1. Combretum Guianense. Arborescens, ramis obtuse tetragonis te- 

 trapteris, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis oblongis obtuse et bre- 

 viter acuminatis utrinque lepidotis, spicis terminalibus opposite 

 vel ternatim paniculatis, floribus unilateralibus confertis ebracteo- 

 latis, calycibus extus lepidotissimis intus longe pilosis, fructibus 

 tetragono-tetrapteris lepidotis. 



Hab. Surinam prope plantationem Bergendaal, Sept. florens. Flores 

 pulchre rubri. 



Frutex humilis, ut videtur haud scandens ; rami tereti-subtetra- 

 goni, faciebus duabus lateralibus angustioribus et magis planis quam 

 reliquae convexiores ac majores, sordide fusci, membranis exiguis ri- 

 gidis nigrescentibus fere tetrapteri, hie illic accessoriis membranulis 

 plurialati, \ cent, fere crassi ; internodia 8 — 10 cent, longa, nodis 

 parumper tumidis, cicatricibus petiolorum fere circularibus. Folia 

 opposita decussata ; petioli breves \ cent, paullo superantes, cylin- 

 dracei, antice canaliculati ; lamina elliptica?, 14 — 17 et plura cent, 

 longae, 7 — 8 latse, basi rotundatse obtusse, apice obtuse breviter et 

 inaequaliter acuminata, margine repandae, membranaceae, subco- 

 riacese, nervo medio valido 7 — 8 costas alternas aut suboppositas 

 yenoso-anastomosantes emittente, et ut ramuli, pagina inferior pal- 



