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tiful coloured plate of five Alge; viz., Griffithsia flabellata, 
Mont., Gigartina Gaditana, Mont., Delesseria interrupta, 
Ag., Gigartina conferta, Schousb., and Griffithsia Schousboei, 
Mont. The descriptions are from the pen of Dr Montaigne, 
the distinguished Agamist of Paris. 
It is gratifying to be able to say, that the 6th and last part 
of Professor Lindley's ** Genera et Species Orchidearum,” is 
rapidly advancing, and will contain the Neottidee. This isa 
work of inestimable value, and will be the more prized, now 
that the extensive family of which it treats is so generally 
cultivated and so much studied. 
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From Madras, we have received the continuation of Dr 
Wight's two publications on the Botany of India, which 
now extend, the ‘ Z/lustrations of Indian Botany,” to the end 
- ofthe first volume ; and ** Icones Plantarum Indie Orientalis," 
to the 14th Fasciculus. 
_ We have much pleasure in announcing, that the Society 
for the extinction of Slavery in Africa, and for the Civiliza- 
tion of the Africans, has expressed a wish that a Botanist 
should accompany their projected expedition up the Niger. 
. À competent person has been already recommended, and 
should he be approved of by the Society, it is confidently 
hoped that our knowledge of the Botany of Western Africa 
will be considerably promoted, and that many valuable and. 
hitherto-unknown plants will, by his means, be introduced to 
our herbaria. | 
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