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is dedicated. It commences with a preface by the Editor, giving a 
brief account of the origin of the expedition, and of the valued 
assistance the Editor received from some of the most distinguished 
botanists of the day in the descriptive part of the work; which is 
followed by “ Desiderata from Botanical Collections in Western 
Tropical Africa,” by Mr. Bentham. The Memoir of the Life of Dr. J. 
R. T. Vogel, translated. from the German of Dr. L. C. Treviranus, by 
the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, occupies twenty-one pages ; and the translation 
of Dr. Vogel's Journal of the Voyage to the Niger, by Mr. Scheer, occu- 
pies fifty-one closely-printed pages more. The rest of the volume, 
515 pages contains the Flora, consisting of— 
l. Notes on Madeira Plants, chiefly by Dr. J. D. Hooker, with a 
list of the species. 
2. Very brief notice on the Botany of Teneriffe. 
3. Spicilegia Gorgonea ; or a list, with descriptions of new species, 
of all the plants as yet discovered in the Cape de Verd Islands, from 
the collections of Dr. Hooker, Dr. Vogel, and others, by P. Barker 
Webb, Esg., &c. 
4. Flora Nigritiana ; or a Catalogue of the Plants (with descriptions 
of the new genera and species) of the River Niger, the Island of Fer- 
nando Po, and adjacent parts of Western Tropical Africa, from the 
collections of Dr. Vogel, Mr. G. Don, and other travellers ; in part by 
Dr. Hooker, but by far the greater portion by G. Bentham, Esq. 
The map is a small one, but well executed, expressly for the work, by 
Arrowsmith. The landscape scenes are beautifully executed in litho- 
graphy, and consist of, first, a view of the island of Fernando Po, with 
its giant mountain, (the most conspicuous white building near the shore 
represents the house in which Dr. Vogel breathed his last,) and, second 
(a double plate), showing the luxuriant vegetation of the Delta of 
the Niger. The remaining fifty plates * are wholly botanical, from the 
pencil of Mr. Fitch, and exhibit the same number of the more remark- 
able species of the Flora. 
A work treating on the plants of tropical Western Africa has long 
been a desideratum, and we are sure, as remarked by the Editor, “ it 
will be hailed by every friend of botany, and by every one interested 
in the vegetable productions of those regions, as a Prodromus ; some- 
of the ‘Icones Plan- 
*op n ared in the 8th volume 
he same plates had already appeared in the or by M. Planchon. 
tarum,” with more full descriptions and remarks by Dr. Hooker, 
