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NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



any of the species seem rare ones, but we may mention Lojyhatherum 

 japonicum, Steud., Paidownia tomentosa, Thbg., Phtheirospermum 

 japonicum, Tlibg., Leonurus macrantlius, Max., Gentiana Buergeri, 

 Miq., Pertija scandens, Schz. Bip., var. ovata, Imjmtiens Textori, 

 Miq., Selimim Japonicum, Fr. & Sav., and Desmodium Oldhami, 

 Oliv. The author promises a further memoir on Japanese plants, 

 leaving us to suppose that he has merely printed here the names 

 of species which he was able to determine. S. M. 



Henkici G. Eeichenbach ;?/., Otia hotanica Hamburgensia. Fasciculus 

 primus, Hamburg, 1878. 



Five papers are brought together in this fasciculus, namely, an 

 account of the orchids gathered by F. C. Lehmann in Eguador, 

 by Godefroy-Lebeuf in Cambodia, by the United States exploring 

 expedition of 1838-42, and by Schweinfurth in Ethiopia, as well as 

 an account, supplementary to the well-known one in the ' Linnean 

 Transactions,' of the treasures secm-ed by Parish at Moulmein. 

 The first contains descriptions of several new species of 2Iasdevallia, 

 Stelis, Epidendrum, Odontoglossum, &c. In the second we notice 

 the names of Gymnadenia Galeandra, Kchb. f., a species known 

 from China, Hong-Kong, Assam, and Khasia, Habenaria RumpJiii, 

 Ldl., Peristijlis goodyeroides, Ldl., Cymbidium pendulum, Sw., and 

 Dendrobium crumenatum , Sw. The memoir on Schweinfurth's plants 

 also includes stray notes on and descriptions of other orchids from 

 Afi'ica, with a diagnosis of a new genus Pteroglossaspis (near 

 Cyrtojjera) ; Schweinfiu'th has found Habenaria cirrhata, Rchb., f. 

 hitherto known only from Madagascar, and this discovery is 

 compared with that of Angrmum ebunieum, Thouars, a species 

 recently gathered by Wakefield in Nyika country. S. M. 



An interesting lecture delivered at the Geographical Society by 

 Mr. Thiselton Dyer, on " Plant-distribution as a field for 

 geographical research," is printed in the Society's ' Proceedings ' 

 for 1878 (vol. xxii., No. 6). 



Dr. D. Moore, of Glasnevin, has described in the Scientific 

 Proceedings of the Boyal Dublin Society a supposed new Cerato- 

 zamia, C. fusca-riridis. The specimen is in the collection at 

 Glasnevin, came from Havanna, and is said to be native of Cuba. 

 It is nearly aUied to C. longifolium, Eegel, but differs from the 

 description of that species in its globose stem and very long 

 recurved leaves with the leaflets fuscous-brown beneath. 



From Mr. Roper's notes on the additions to the Fauna and 

 Flora of the Cuckmere district (Sussex) during 1878, it is gratifying 

 to see that no less than 135 fresh species of plants have been found, 

 thii-ty-one being Phanerogams. 



The great ' Flora Brasiliensis ' has made very rapid progress 

 this year. Another part is to hand, Fasc. 97, dated 1st September, 

 and containing the second portion of the Graminecc worked out by 



