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great encomium cannot, in my humble opinion, be 

 bestowed on the judgement and success of the cu- 

 rator of the Liverpool Botanic Institution. I have re- 

 solved to give this method ample and frequent trials, 

 and I shall begin by returning the compliment to that 

 excellent garden. I shall not forget sending, also, 

 ferns. — Lastly,among your specimens you will find 

 numerous Melostomea ; Labiata ; Scrophularincce, 

 among them my Scr. urticifolia ; several Ternstroe- 

 miacecB, Po/ygonece, Liliacecp, Melanthacea, viz. An- 

 guillaria indica of Brown ; Filices ; Grambiecc; Cy- 

 peracea ; several species of Hydrangea, Viburnum; 

 Ranunculacea, UmbellatcB, Corymbifera, many Quer- 

 ci. There is a Rhus, which I take to be the genuine 

 Sitz of Kaempfer, and which I call R. juglandifo- 

 lium. A seemingly dioecious species of Cynomoriinn, 

 two species of Myrica, one of which is Colonel 

 Hardwicke's jKWy?/z?//in Asiatic Researches, vol. vi. ; 

 the other is a doubtful species, which answers to 

 Rumphii Lignum Emanum ; its fruit and female 

 flowers I shall do myself the pleasure to present to 

 you on a future occasion. Several species of a ge- 

 nus which has a close affinity to Incarvtlla.a, and 

 with that forming, according to Mr. Brown's sug- 

 gestion, a distinct section of Bignoniacea. I call 

 the genus in question Didymocarpus. It has three 

 stamina, one of which is abortive. The capsule 

 Imearis pseudo-4-locutaris, 2-valvis, dissepimento 

 contrario 2-lobo : lobis valvulis parallelis marginc 

 involuto seminiferis, seminibus nudis ! Htrbce humi- 

 les, incano-pubescentes venoso-punctata, aromatica. 

 One of the species, my D. aromatica, is in high 



