400 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



{cate, a tree, chn, juice), or catechu nigrum. Garabir, or gambier, is 

 the Malay term for tlie reddish-brown eartliy substance from the leaves 

 and young shoots of Uncarla Gambir, a rubiaceous plant ; to distin- 

 guish it from that of Acacia Catechu, it is termed catechu jjallidtim or 

 ien'a Japonica. 



It is a hard matter to get the vegetable products of commerce into 

 some one hundred pages, but though more room should undoubtedly be 

 given, yet such plants as Balsa and Cedron could well be dispensed 

 with ; in a book which deals with commercial products, all sub- 

 stances which do not actually figure in commerce should be omitted. 

 Speaking, then, only of the part which more immediately concerns 

 us, we should recommend its enlargement and careful examination by 

 an economic botanist, thoroughly acquainted with the recent literature 

 of the subject. We cannot, however, think of closing this notice, 

 without bestowing our praises and thanks for the Appendix, in which 

 between 300 and 400 products are catalogued, and the synonyms in 

 some 24 languages given. The book is well got up, the paper and 

 type good, and we wash it every success. J. C. 



§jDtantcal |{elxis. 



We are glad to be able to say that Armand Tliielens, whose death we 

 announced at p. 240, and again alluded to on p. 336, was the father of the 

 botanist of the same name, and not, as we thought, the botanist himself. 



The eighth fasciculus of Van Heurck's ' Herbier des Plantes rares ou cri- 

 tiques de Belgique ' is published. It is, we think, somewhat to be regretted 

 that the consistency of the series is interfered with by the inclusion of Italian 

 species, whilst so many more Belgian plants remain to be issued. We notice, 

 also, the publication of the fourth fascicle of Braun, Eabenhorst, and Stizen- 

 berg's specimens of Eui'opean CharacecB. 



The fourth volume of the Royal Society's ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers ' 

 includes author's names from L'Heritier to Pozzetti. 



Corrigendum. — On p. 354, lines 4 and 5, for " exigences . . . imply," read 

 existence . . . implies. 



Note. — The part of Dr. Seeraann's " Revision of the BignoniaeecB " on pp. 

 337-339, including the genera Netrhouldia and Muenteria, cancels the portion 

 containing the same genera on pp. 210-212. 



Communications have been received from Dr. Braithwaite, J. Collins, U. C. 

 Watson, J. Sadler, W. Mitten, Dr. Hance, L. H. Grindon, W. Phillips, J. 

 Britten, Prof. Thiseltou Dyer. 



