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Natural Orders are indicated) are rather out of place under the head 

 of Umbelliferous products. Under Sugar-plants, we find the Palm 

 producing "jaggery" given under the name Scujmrm saccharifer, 

 whereas at page 151 the same plant is called Sagmrm Rumphii ; not 

 many readers would know that they are synonyms. Only one species, 

 Ilex Paraguayensis, is mentioned as producing Mate, whereas Mr. Miers 

 has enumerated eight species of the genus which are so em.ployed. 

 Amongst the fruits, we find Apples and Pears are left out in the cold ; 

 and only a single Palm (Cocos niicifera) is mentioned as producing 

 food. 



In the ' Miscellaneous Pood Products,' Celraria idatidica is omitted. 

 We hardly think that the account of the action of " churrus" is in 

 its right place under " fibres." Oil of lavender is obtained from La- 

 vandula vera, not L. Spica, which is the source of foreign oil of laven- 

 der, or oil of spike, as it is more often called. In the account of india- 

 rubber, Ficus elastica is called tlie " far famed banyan-tree," " whose 

 daughters grow about the mother-tree," though at page 181 this 

 name is rightly applied to F. indica. Urceola elastica, the caoutchouc 

 from which enters largely into commerce, is not mentioned. Isonandra 

 gulta is the only tree given as yielding gutta-percha, whereas at least a 

 dozen others produce the same substance. We should have preferred 

 too, to have seen the name Garcinia Morella, instead of Graham's dis- 

 used name Hehradendron gambogiodes. Boswellia serrata,^oy\). {^B. 

 thnri/era), is the only source of olibanum mentioned, but from the re- 

 searches of Carter, Birdwood, and others, this, though a thuriferous 

 species, does not appear to yield any of the olibanum of commerce; 

 the bulk of which is obtained from B. Carterii and B. Bhan-Dajiana. 

 In the account of medicinal barks, we notice that New Granada is 

 not mentioned as a Chinchona region ; the Countess of Chinchon is 

 wrongly called the Countess of Cinchona ; and the source of red bark 

 is said to be not yet ascertained^ though a reference to Howard's 

 ' Nueva Quinologia,' or any materia medica work, would give Chinchona 

 succirubra, Pavon. At p. 235, twelve lines are taken up with an 

 account of " cedron," the seeds of Simaba Cedron, but only one and a 

 half with Q/tassia amara ; Picrcnna excelsa is not mentioned at all. 

 Catechu, teiTa japonica, cutch, and gambler are all put down to one 

 ^\sL\\i, Acacia Catechu. Tliis is incorrect ; the substance obtained from 

 the wood 0^ Acacia Calechu is known under the names of cutcli, catechu 



