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times longer than the nucleus, one of them simple, the other often 

 deeply divided. 



On the Strickland-River; Dr. Bernays and Mr. W. Baeuerlen. 

 Leaves, so far as seen, to seven inches long and to five inches broad, 

 dark-green above, palegreen beneath ; nerves about ten from each side 

 of the midrib ; veins rather distant ; veinlets faint. Stipules nearly 

 half an inch broad. Peduncles attaining finally alengthof two inches; 

 the lower Joint of them flattened, some becoming converted into hook- 

 like tendrils. Calyx soon after anthesis about half an inch long; 

 lobes hardly exceeding V^'i^ich in length. Corolla not available, — all 

 specimens obtained being past flowering. Umbellifoim or fascicular 

 head of fruits solitary, measuring about four inches. Pedicels slender, 

 rather longer than the ripe fruits, and as well as these sparsely 

 appressed-hairy ; the latter inclusive of the terminating lobes nearly 

 one inch long , streaked by longitudinal nerves , separating by tardy 

 septicidal dehiscence into two halves, but not bursting further, unless 

 at very advanced maturation. Seeds minute, brown, somewhat rough, 

 very much shorter than the whitish narrow appendages. 



Aspect of the plant that of U. pilosa; but the branchlets and leaves 

 of that species are short-hairy , the involucels conspicuously large, 

 while the fruits are considerably smaller. — From U. Gambir and U. 

 acida, which are mainly those, reared in plantations for obtaining the 

 mercantile Gambir , our plant diifers in many respects ; and as it is 

 much more robust and in all its parts larger, the yield of the drug 

 and dye or tan-material from our plant would be much larger, pro- 

 vided that the contents of Catechin and Catechu-Acid should also 

 prove i-ich. 



W. H unter 's illustration of U. Gambir in Vol. IX., pl. 22, of the 

 Linnean Society is a fair one, precisely reiterated in Hayne's Arznei- 

 Gewächse X., 3. Better still is the picture of that plant in Bentley's 

 and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, part 7, numb. 189. From that work 

 and from Flückiger and Hanbury's Pharmacography, p. 298 — 801, 

 ready information might be gained , concerning the simple mode of 

 preparing the Gambir or pale Catechu, as well as the places and extent 

 of export. One other Uncaria is extant as Papuan , the U. appendi- 

 culata from Dutch New Guinea ; but it is not closely similar to our 

 plant. In bestowing on the latter now the name oi' Dr. Bernays, 

 the surgeon of Captain Everill's Expedition, I would bear public 

 testimony to the skill and zeal displayed by him in seeing the whole 

 party back from such a fever-region in safety, the medicinal value of 

 this Uncaria likely enhancing to him this particular Identification oi 

 his name with the Papuan flora.j 



Pittier, H., The flora of the Pays d'Enhaut (Switzerland). A botanical 

 account. 8». 16 pp. Chäteau-d'Oex (l'auteur) 1886. 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten : 



Cettolini, Un nuovo nemico della vite. (Rivista di viticoltura ed enologia. 

 X. 1886. No. 1/2.) 



Medicinisch-pharmaeeutische Botanik : 



Freudenreich, Ed. de, De l'emploi des milieux nutritifs solides pour le 

 dosage des bacteries de l'air. (Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles. 

 Ser. III. T. XV. 1886. No. 2.) 



Forst-, ökonomisclie und gärtnerische Botanik: 



La>yley, L'avvenire della nostra viticultura di fronte ad una invasione generale 

 della Fillossera. (Atti della reale Accademia economico-agraria dei Georgo- 

 fili Firenze. Ser. IV. Vol. VIII. 1885. Disp. 2.) 



Plüniacher, Zur Geschichte des Weinbaues in Tennessee. (Ausland. 1886. 

 No. r2.j 



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