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' Syuoi)sis.' Compared with B. jjallidus, its stem is so armed as 

 to seem sub-glabrous^ its leaflets are not felted beneath, and 

 differ much m shape, the terminal one being very much rounder 

 and more cordate ; the iDanicle more abrupt, x)artly on account of 

 the shortness of the terminal peduncle. I know nothing about 

 the colour of the floral organs or the shape of the petals. It seems 

 to be another well-marked form of li. Koehleri, which may perhaps 

 be characterised as follows : — 



11. cavatifolms, Miill. ; stem arcuate-prostrate angular furrowed 

 suhfjlahrous, prickles many very unequal declming from a 

 compressed base, aciculi and setae very short rather 

 unequal, hairs very few, leaves quinate, leaflets unequally 

 and rather doubly but finely dentate-serrate even above 

 pale green and hairy on the veins beneath, terminal leaflet 

 cordate cuspidate-attenuate {excluding the lomj point they 

 are scarcely lonyer than broad), basal leaflets not imbricate 

 stalked, panicle oblong truncate, leafy below its terminal 

 jDedimcle much shorter than the lateral ones, axillary branches 

 subracemose its prickles long slender its aciculi setae and 

 hah's many, sepals ovate-attenuate reflexed. 



Unfortunately I have only seen a single specimen of this plant. 

 ( To he continued, i 



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EiCKLERiA, Hartog (see p. 72.) — As I find that Eichleria is 

 already preoccupied, my genus of that name must be altered, and 

 I name, it Muriea, after Dr. James Murie, F.L.S., &c., Assistant- 

 Secretary to the Linnean Society. I have carefully examined 

 Cryptogyne, Hook, f., and find it to possess the floral symmetry of 

 Chrysophyllum oliviforme, with the addition of five scales in fi'ont of 

 the stamens. These do not influence the position of the carpels, 

 and though described doubtfully as staminodes by Sir Jos. Hooker, 

 are certainly mere emergences from the "corolla-tube." — M. M. 

 Hartog. 



Notices of Boolts ana ilTtmo(rs. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS 

 PLANTS PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS IN GREAT 

 BRITAIN DURING THE YEAR 1877. 



This Hst comprehends the new genera and species of Flowering 

 Plants published, during 1877, in the following periodicals : — 

 'Botanical Magazine,' ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' 'Icones Plantarum,' 



