60 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



The fourth edition of Brebisson's useful ' Flore de la Normandie' has just 

 appeared. 



The new decades (7 to 10) of the 22nd volume of Heichen bach's ' Icones FloriB 

 Germ, et Helv.' contain the genera Medicago, Melilotus, and a part of Tri- 

 folium; the enlarged dissections are excellent, and will be found to give mvich 

 information on the characters of these plants, but the natural-size figures are 

 rather stiff, and do not very well poi'tray the general habit of the species they 

 represent ; they are also too highly coloured. 



The 38th, 39th, and 40th centuries of Billot's 'Flora Exsiccata GalliiE cfc 

 Germanise,' and the 11th and 12tli centuries of F. Schultz's ' Herbarium Nor- 

 male,' have recently appeared. In connection with the last, we are glad to see 

 tliat the ' Archives de Flore,' or observations on the plants in the herbarium, 

 have been resumed, after a rather long interval ; we hope to give extracts and 

 notes on some of the British species shortly. 



A new part (vol. xxvii. part 1) of the Linnean Society's ' Transactions' has 

 appeared. It contains Dr. Welwitsch's " Sertum Angolense," Latin descrip- 

 tions and accounts of new or ill-understood plants from Angola, illustrated 

 with 25 plates, viz.: — 3donodoraAngolensis,Welw., Ceranthera ilic(folia,We\w ., 

 Oncoba Welwitscliii, Oliv., Polygala Gomesiana, Welw., Vatica Africana, 

 Welw., Octolohus spectabilis, Welw., Paivceusa dactylophi/Ua, Welw., Myro- 

 thamnus Jiabellifolia, Welw., Basananthe Nummularia, Welw., Machadoa 

 Haillensis, Welw., Acanthosicyos horrida, Welw., Corallocarpus Welwitschii, 

 Hook, f , Musscanda splendida, Welw., Corynanthe faniculata, Welw., Schre- 

 bera Goltmgensis, Welw., Packypodimn Lealii, Welw., Faroa sahttaris, Welw., 

 Sesamothamnus Benguellensis, Welw., Alvesia rosmarinifoUa, Welw., Faiirea 

 speciosa, Welw., Hydnora longicoUis, Welw., Pilosiyles ^thiopica, Welw., 

 Morus exceha, Welw., Ascolepis speciosa, Welw., A. ayithemiflora, Welw., 

 Aristida prodigiosa, Welw. 



The first part of the second volume of Mr. W^ilson Saunders's ' Refugiuni 

 Botauicum' has just appeared. This volume is edited by Dr. Reichenbach, and 

 is devoted entirely to the figuring and describing of rare and interesting spe- 

 cies of Orchidea, which have flowered in Mr. Saunders's collection at Hill- 

 field. It includes 24- species, most of wliich are here drawn, and several here 

 described, for the first time. 



The last part of Walpers' hidispensable ' Annales' (vol. vii. fasc. 4) continues 

 tlie Zqgophyllece, and carries on the enumeration of new species into the Ana- 

 cardiacecB. 



Mr. James Colhns read an encyclopa?dic paper on India-rubber at a well- 

 attended meeting of the Society of Arts hi December. -It has been published 

 in tlie Society's Journal, and is a useful contribution to economic botany. 



Professor Perceval Wright has contributed to the twenty-fourth volume of 

 the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy a description, with plates by 

 Fitch of three new plants gathered by himself on a recent visit to tlie Sey- 

 chelles. Of these the most interesting is a Pitcher-plant, which grows in two 

 of the islands on the exposed summits of mountain peaks at a height of 2500 

 feet above sea level. This he names Nepenthes Wardii. 



