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lecting seeds, but shall endeavour to procure a fourth for the 

 express purpose, so that there is hope that I shall in future 

 be able to supply at least a part of the applications which are 

 made to me for them. 



P. S. I have just been examining the supposed Vaccinium, 

 and find it a Thibaudia or Gaylussacia, or neither ; unfor- 

 tunately, I have not Kunth's Synopsis by me, and Sprengel 

 is my only authority ; but I suspect it to be a new genus 

 which will embrace several other Indian species. The pen- 

 dulous placentae with pendulous ovules all round the mar- 

 gin are very peculiar, and the after enlargement and union 

 of the placentae with the axis, forming ten cells out of five 

 is not less so; such is the case. I may one day make it the 

 subject of a paper for our Journal^ but I shall first write to 

 Wallich for specimens of the other species in order to have 

 them all well examined. 



[The Vaccinium? belongs to Don's genus Agapetes, but 

 the character given does not accord with any species I have 

 examined : the anthers have two small recurved aristae or horns 

 at their back at the bottom of the tubes, which are quite free, 

 and open each by a round pore at the apex. — Arn.*] 



XVI.— BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



[The letter from Mr Gardner printed at page 134 of this volume, was 

 soon succeeded by the following one of so late a date as the 4th of August, 

 of the present year, 1840 ; and we are sure our readers will rejoice at the 

 invariable success which has attended the researches of this zealous 

 Botanist.] 



• Soon after this letter, Dr Wight received an appointment at Madras, 

 where he is actively engaged superintending the publication of his Illustra- 

 tions of Indian Botany, and his Icones. 



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