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and the calyx densely tomentose on the inner surface. No other species 

 of Sterculia has hitherto heen detected in South Africa. 



Plate XV., Fig. 1. Sterculia Alexandri; the natural size. — Fig. 2. 

 The staminal column, and one of the segments of the calyx, magnified. 



I shall at present conclude hy describing a new and very distinct spe- 

 cies of Anagallis, sent by Mr. Hutton, and thus characterized : — 



Anagallis Huttoni (Harv.) : caulibus tetragonis decumbentibus v. 

 basi repentibus simpliciusculis, foliis rotundato-ovatis obtusis petiolatis, 

 pedicellis folio longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis, corollee rotata3 laciniis 

 acutis, filamentis late-subulatis pilosis. (Plate XYI.) 



Hab. : Howison's Poort ; Henry Hutton, Esq. 



A slender, herbaceous, decumbent perennial (?), with long, trailing, 

 simple branches, and white flowers. It has much the habit of A. arven- 

 sis, but differs in the decidedly petioled leaves, acute lobes of the corolla, 

 and (probably) perennial root, &c. In the leaves it agrees with A. 

 tenella, but differs in all other characters. I can find no described 

 species to which it can be referred, and have much pleasure in naming 

 it after its discoverer, to whom I am much indebted for numerous inte- 

 resting specimens of Cape plants, and from whose explorations of the 

 frontier more may be expected. This graceful little plant recommends 

 itself to notice, as well by its intrinsic beauty, as from being an addition 

 to the South African Primulaceae — an Order only previously represented 

 in extra tropical South Africa by one Lysimachia, two Samoli, and 

 Anagallis arvensis — the latter probably introduced from Europe. 



Plate XVI., Fig. 1. Anagallis Huttoni ; the natural size. — Fig. 2. 

 A corolla laid open, bearing the stamens. — Fig. 3. A stamen. — Fig. 4. 

 Pyxidium and calyx. — Fig. 5. A leaf; the latter figures variously 

 magnified. 



Pbofessor J. R. Kinahan, M. D., M. R. I. A., then read the follow- 

 ing:— 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. 



During a hurried visit paid to Cornwall and South Devon, a few inter- 

 esting facts came under my notice, which I would wish to place on re- 

 cord in the Proceedings of the Association, as bearing on a subject 

 which at present is assuming some importance among naturalists, viz., 

 the distribution of the lower forms of animal life in the British isles. 



