Linnaean Society. 449 



In a supplementary note, Dr. Falconer adds, that he has since 

 learned by letters from Dr. Wight and Mr. Griffith, that both those 

 gentlemen have been long aware of Cryptolepis being an Asclepiadeous 

 genus. With reference to Dr. Wight and Mr. Arnott's genus Stre- 

 ptocaulon, under which those authors include the mass of Dr.Wallich's 

 Indian species of Periploca, he observes, that S. calophyllum wants 

 the principal character on which the distinction of that genus from 

 Periploca is founded, and suggests its restoration to Periploca, of 

 which he also characterizes a new species from the neighbourhood 

 of Cashmeer with a peculiar pseudo-aphyllous habit. Of these spe- 

 cies he gives the following characters : — 



P. calophylla, volubilis glabra, foliis angust& lanceolatis longe attenuatis 

 utrinque nitidis transverse venosis, cymis subsessilibus paucifloris, flo- 

 ribus breviter pedicellatis, corollis intus parce hirsutis, squamis hirsutis- 

 simis, folliculis elongatis gracilibus subparallelis (nee divaricatis !). 



Streptocaulon calophyllum, Wight, Contr. Ind. Bot., p. 65. 



Hab. passim in vallibus exterioribus montium Himalensium. 



P. Hydaspidis, volubilis ramosissima glabra, ramis fasciculatis nodoso- 

 articulatis, foliis tenuissimis linearibus apiculatis adpressis remotis ca- 

 ducis, cymis axillaribus multifloris, iloribus breviter pedicellatis, corolla 

 intus squamisque tomentosis. 



Hab. secus ripas Hydaspidis extra Kashmeer prope " Khutao Kelah." — 

 FL Septembri. 



The paper was accompanied by a coloured drawing of Cryptolepis 

 Buchanani ? var. reticulata, and of the details of its fructification. 



Read also, " A Description of an additional species of Paussus." 

 By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



The following are the characters of this species, which Mr. West- 

 wood states to be most nearly allied to P. ruber, Thb., and of which 

 he has seen only a single, specimen in the collection of Samuel 

 Stevens, Esq., who obtained it together with specimens of Platyrho- 

 palus denticornis and P. aplustrifer in a small collection of Indian in- 

 sects, without any indication of its precise locality. 



Paussus Stevensianus, pallide luteus, cap it e rugosulo tuberculis 2 elevatis 

 inter oculos, antennarum clava magna, postice excavata, elytris versus 

 apicem fasciculis duobus minutis pilorum instructis. 



November 2. — The Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Read, " Notes on the Habits of the Box -Tortoise of the United 

 States of America, the Cistuda Carolina of .Gray." By George Ord, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



Mr. Ord states that this species is common in Pennsylvania, and 

 appears to prefer dry situations, only frequenting the wet in pursuit 

 of some favourite food, such as the remains of fish which lie scattered 

 under the trees in swamps where the Night-heron (Ardea Nyctico- 

 rax, L.) breeds. It feeds also on insects, worms, and tender fungi, 

 and eats greedily of strawberries, raspberries, and soft peaches. Its 

 flesh is excellent, but the farmers have the same prejudice against it 

 as against that of frogs. It hybernates about the middle of October, 

 preferring a loose soil and southern exposure ; and in severe winters 

 some individuals perish in consequence of not having penetrated to a 



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