ISO Linnean Society. [April 5, 



Goorgoora dicta. Floret Februario ; fructus maturescit Julio. Semina 

 dura globosa vulgo in monilia precatoria conseruntnr. 

 Dr. Falconer describes Edgeworthia as one of the most character- 

 istic forms of Lower AiFghanistan, where it grows associated with a 

 species of Dodoncea, Olea Laitoona, a species of RJiazya, and an un- 

 described Asclepiadeous genus. To the latter, which he refers to the 

 tribe of Periplocece, he gives the name of Campelepis, with the follow- 

 ing generic characters : — 



Campelepis. 



Corolla rotata, 5-fida ; fauce coronata, squamis 5 cum segmentis alternan- 

 tibus, brevibus, flexuoso-trilobis, conflnentibus, medio aristatis, aristis 

 filiformibns erectis apice uncinatis ; tubo intus squamulis totidem inclu- 

 sis, laceris, patentibus, staminibus oppositis, instructo. Filamenta di- 

 stincta, fauci infra squamas inserta ; antheras sagittatae, apiculo acuto 

 terminatse, dorso barbatse, basi stigmatis medio agglutinatae. Masses 

 polUnis solitarise, granulosa, corpusculorum stigmatis appendiculis di- 

 latatis applicitae. Stigma dilatatum, muticum. FoUicuU cylindracei^ 

 Iseves, divaricatissimi. Semina ad umbilicum comosa. — Frutex erectus, 

 ramosissimus, glabtr, quasi aphyllus; foliis nenipe squamceformibus, deci- 

 duis, remotis ; cymis breve pedu?icidatis, paucijloris ; ^orihus parvis, cO" 

 riaeeis ; corollae laciniis intus prope apicem barbatis, disco leprosis, 



Campelepis viminea. 



Hah. passim in Bactria Inferiore, prope Peshawur, Attock, &c. 



April 5. 



R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary announced that the Society had received, in pur 

 suance of the bequest of the late Professor David Don, Libr. L.S., 

 his Herbarium and collection of Woods and Fruits, with the ex- 

 ception of such as relate to Materia Medica. 



Mr. Richard Kippist, Libr. L.S,, was elected an Associate. 



Read the commencement of " A Catalogue of Spiders, either not 

 previously recorded or little known as indigenous to Great Britain, 

 with remarks on their Habits and Economy." By John Blackwall, 

 Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



