Biography of the late Captain Dugald Carmichael US 



This remarkable genus must be placed next to Cuphea, but 

 from which, as well as from every other genus of the order, it 

 is essentially distinguished by its pedicellate fruit, and by the 

 placenta being attached along its whole length to the upper side 

 of the ovarium. The stamina are also fewer in number, and 

 the calyx is furnished with two bracteae. The plant is a native 

 of Chile, where it was discovered by my late friend Mr James 

 Macrae, and more recently by Mr H. Cuming, in whose exten- 

 sive collection there are abundance of fine specimens of it. 



LAPAGERIA rosea, No. 22. p. 279. 



Add the following synonym. 



Vochi, Liliaceo amplissimoque flore cramesino. Feuill. Peruv. p. 69. t. 491 



The figure is an indifferent one, the leaves being erroneously 

 represented as ternate, and the flower as tetraphyllous, but the 

 description, as is usual with this accurate author, is excellent, 

 except in regard to the leaves, which he states to be ternate. 



Biography of the late Dugald Carmichael, Esq. Captain 72d 

 Regiment, Felloiv ofLinncBan Society, ^c. (Continued from 

 preceding volume, page 103.) 



A Hus we see that neither the hurry of military movements, 

 nor the proximity of the enemy, could hinder Capt. Car- 

 michael from entering immediately upon his scientific researches, 

 or availing himself of the hours which might justly be devoted 

 to sleep or recreation, in order to become acquainted with the 

 productions of the country. From his journal we transcribe 

 the following notes on the animals of the Cape. 



" The African Nhinoceros {Rhinoceros bicornis) differs from 

 that of Asia, in having two horns instead of one. Its hide is 

 smooth^ likewise, and free from wrinkles. Of the hide of the 

 Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus, the boors manufacture a sort of 

 horsewhip, known by the name of Shambok,'" " The horns of the 

 Rhinoceros are solid. When turned in the lathe, and fashioned 

 into drinking-cups, the article is held in high repute among the 

 colonists as an infallible detector of poison. They firmly be- 



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