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macrophylla, and P. tnicropht/Ua, I cannot distinguish from 

 Lebreionia, now united to Pavonia by Endlicher. 



Among Rubiacece Drege has some new genera, AlbertOf 

 (described by Endlicher in his genera, p. 565, but more 

 fully by E. Meyer in the Linnaea xii. p. 258,) a genus not 

 far from Musscenda ; Carpothalis E. M., a genus near Coffea, 

 if not the same as De Candolle's second section, Crocyllis, 

 and Lagoiis. These last two belong to the group Anthosper- 

 mecB; the first of them appears to be congener with Antho- 

 spermnm Lichtensteinii Cr., while the other is identical with 

 Anth. spermacoceum Reich. Of the Anthospermece^ and closely 

 allied to Coprosma, I possess what seems to be an undescribed 

 genus, found by Bridges (No. 762) in fields near Valdivia 

 in Chili: it may be called and characterized shortly thus : — 



Leptostigma. 



Calyx 4-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa, 4-fida. Stamina 4, 

 didynama, duobus longioribus exsertis. Stigmata duo, hirsuta, 

 elongata, filiformia. — Suffrutex pusillus, radicans, glaber. 

 Caules 2 — 3-ujiciales. Folia rotundo-ovaia, obtusa, petiolata, 

 margine ciliato-scabra ; petiolis basi ope stipulariim brevium 

 truncatarum cormatis. Flores terminales, solitarii ternive sitb- 

 sessi/es. — DifFerta Coprosma corolla tubulosa, staminibus in- 

 aequalibus, et habitu. 



In concluding these remarks on some of the Cape Genera 

 and species, in the course of which I fear I have made several 

 unnecessary and tedious digressions, I cannot resist expres- 

 sing my regret that more care has not been bestowed on the 

 determination of Drege's superb collections. It is well known 

 that Ecklon and Zeyher not only brought to Europe a rich 

 harvest of Cape plants, but that a great portion are named 

 and described in their Enumeratio plantarum Africce Auslralis 

 extratropicfP : the descriptions however are short, and even 

 omitted entirely when the species is not new ; so that without 

 an actual comparison the identity of Drege's specimens, with 

 those of Ecklon and Zeyher, cannot be made out. This how- 

 ever the subscribers to Drege's plants had some right to ex- 



