438 Ldmium intermedium, 



4 false grinders, and 6 true ones ; it is the dentary formula 

 of man, and of all the apes of the old continent. 



The incisive teeth are equal in size, they are almost vertical, 

 and ranged in a transverse line; the canine teeth are short, 

 vertical, and would meet without going beyond each other ; 

 the first false grinder is not at all inclined backward from the 

 pressure of the upper canine, and is on the contrary quite 

 vertical as in man ; the grinders have their crown armed with 

 blunt tubercles disposed in oblique pairs. By all these 

 characters it is easy to recognise the jaw in question, as be- 

 longing to one of the Quadrumana, to an ape properly so 

 called, and to an ape elevated in the series. 



" Now, says M. de Blainville, as the gibbons are certainly 

 the group of apes which ought to follow immediately after 

 that of the orangs, if indeed they be distinct from each other, we 

 see that M. Lartet is very near the truth, so much the more 

 as the true grinders have, tolerably distinct, the 5th tubercle 

 characteristic of these teeth among the gibbons. Neverthe- 

 less as this disposition is not certainly so well indicated in 

 the fossil ape, as in the living gibbons that we are acquainted 

 with, and that besides this it offers a much more evident 

 peculiarity in the proportion of the last grinder, which comes 

 very near to that existing in the Semnopitheci, and even in 

 the baboons, it seems decisive that the fossil ape should form 

 a small separate section, unless we can refer it to the Colobi, 

 which in South Africa seem to represent the Semnopitheci 

 of India. The other fragments, which M. Lartet supposes, 

 it is true, to have belonged to Quadrumana, have appeared 

 to the secretaries as referable rather to other groups." 



To resume our subject, says M. de Blainville, though we 

 are at present unable by any possibility to admit the extraor- 

 dinary fact of the assemblage in one locality of fossil remains 

 belonging to animals so rigorously limited in their geological 

 boundaries as the true apes, the marmosets, and the makis ; 

 yet the discovery of fossil bones belonging indubitably, as M. 

 Lartet has clearly seen and pointed out, to an ape more 

 nearly related to the gibbons, apes limited to the farthest 

 parts of Asia, than to any other living species, does not the 

 less remain to be considered as one of the most fortunate and 

 unlooked for discoveries which has been made in palaeonto- 

 logy of late years, and we propose in consequence, that the 

 academy should continue to M. Lartet the encouragements 

 which it has begun to afford him, in order to facilitate his 

 researches, and render them more extended, and consequently 

 more fruitful. (L. Hermes^ July, 1837.) 



Ldmium intermedium. — Of this plant I have this year 

 gathered three specimens amongst the weeds of my garden 



