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I have not Brown's A. si?iuata i but your plant seems 

 to answer to his character. If new, cana would be 

 a good name. 



Berberis pinnata, Roxb. I have this fine plant 

 from Dr. F. Hamilton, by the names of Leontice 

 fruticosa, and Berberis Miccia. It may be Ilex ja- 

 ponica of Thunberg, as you suspect ; but how could 

 he overlook the pinnate leaves ? What is most re- 

 markable is, that I have the very same plant from 

 California, gathered by Mr. Menzies, who likewise 

 called it B. pinnata, an excellent name. 



Saxifraga ligulata, Wall. — You have, I doubt 

 not, a reason for your name, though it does not 

 appear ; but I have an idea of there being some- 

 where a S, ligulata. On searching, I find there is a 

 /mgulata of Bellardi, which however is my callosa, 

 published in Dickson's Dried Plants. Your plant is 

 next akin to S. crassifolia, and might have been 

 called fimbriata, from its essential distinction. 



Geranium from Kalmouda, called Tissoo soah, is 

 next akin to G. bohemicum, but the flowers are little 

 more than half so large, and the bohemicum has the 

 capsule corrugated transversely, which in yours is 

 even (an excellent mark) and rather less hairy. 

 Your leaves too have rounder and more deep lobes. 

 The various pubescence of the stem is singular ; in 

 some parts very dense ; then suddenly smooth. It 

 would be charity to help you to a specific name in 

 such a great genus. Perhaps heterotrichum might 

 do, if the above character be constant. 



Pavetta tomentosa, precisely mine. 



Ixora lanceolaTA, Colebr. — new to me. I pre- 

 sume the name alludes to the form of the leaf; Ian- 



