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tion, in the Years 1839 to 1842. 4to. pp. 132. Philadelphia, 

 1846. From the Author. 



American Journal of Science and Arts. For March, 1846. 

 From the Editors. 



March 18, 1846. 

 The President in the Chair. 



Prof. Asa Gray communicated a notice of a new genus of 

 plants of the order of Santalacece, of which the following 

 are the technical characters. 



Darbya. Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonium simplex, turbina- 

 tum, ad medium 4-5-dum ; lobis ovatis, patentibus. Discus 

 crassiusculus, perigonii penitus lubo adnatus, margine 4-5-cre- 

 natus. Stamina 4-5, e sinubus disci, lobis perigonii opposita : 

 filamenta brevia, subulata : antherse biloculares ; loculis fascicule 

 filarum araneosarum ad basin lobi perigonii annexis. Foem. Ignota. 

 Fructus * * * stylo unico superatus, unilocularis, monosper- 

 mus. Frutex, in Georgia et Carolina superiore vigens, glaber, 

 cortice griseo. Folia opposita, uncialia, membranacea, ovalia, 

 margine inlegerrima, subundulata, breviter petiolata, venosa, 

 sublus pallidiora. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, folio breviores, 

 ebracteolati, umbellam 3-8-florem gerentes ; floribus parvis 

 virescentibus, intus flavidis. 



Species. Darbya umhellulata. Hab. near Milledgeville, Geo., 

 Dr. Boykin^ and at Macon, Prof. Darhy ; also at Lincolnton, 

 N. C, Mr. M. A. Curtis. 



Dr. Gray stated that, as he had no doubt that this shrub adds 

 another to our few genera of this interesting order, he desired 

 that it should bear the name, and commemorate the botanical 

 services, of Prof. Darby, one of its discoverers, to whom a large 

 part of our still incomplete knowledge of the plant is owing. Dr. 

 G. hoped that some botanist of upper Carolina or Georgia would 

 preserve the pistillate flowers and young fruit in spirits, in order 



