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satisfactory information regarding the claim of Hebradendron 

 gambogioides to be considered a native of Ceylon. In a letter 

 which I have from Mrs Walker, dated 1st and 2d May 1837, 

 she mentions a tour she had made through different parts of the 

 island, and adds, " we found the Ceylon gamboge-tree several 

 times in forests distant from the habitation of man, which proves 

 the tree to be indigenous." She afterwards adds, however, 

 " The tree does not abound much." In my account of this 

 tree, in the C'ompanion to the Botanical Magazine, I could only 

 describe the male flower and the fruit, and I stated that Mrs 

 Walker's account seemed to shew that the plant was monoecious. 

 I had no specimen of female blossom. I have now the satisfac- 

 tion of adding, that Mrs Walker, in her last letter, assures me 

 she has ascertained the tree to be dioecious, that the inflores- 

 cence of the female tree is similar to that of the male, the flower 

 white and a little larger, and she has most kindly sent me a 

 sketch of this, which presents a germen precisely in miniature 

 of the fruit, and surrounded (like it) with several (ten .?) abor- 

 tive stamens, which seem united at the base. — Dr Graham. 



17. Discovert/ o/'Carex Leporina, Linn., near the Summit of 

 Loch-na-Gar — I received a few weeks ago from my friend Dr 

 Murray of Aberdeen, a specimen of a carex gathered by Mr 

 Dickie in August 1836, on rocks near the summit of Loch-na- 

 Gar, towards the west side of the mountain, which appears, up- 

 on careful examination, to be Carex leporina, Linn., Willd., 

 and Flor. Dan., C. lagopina, Wahl., and C. Lachenalii, Schkuhr, 

 a species never before found in Britain. — Dr Greville has com- 

 pared the Scotch plant with Lapland specimens in his herbarium, 

 sent to him by Fries, as well as by the Unio Itineraria, and he 

 finds that it agrees with them in every respect. It is an alpine 

 species, having some resemblarice to C. ovalis, Gooden, but is 

 only about one-half the size of that species. The following are 

 the characters given by Wahlenberg : spiculis tribus basi mas- 

 culis, confertis, subglobosis, squamis capsula brevioribus, cap- 

 sulis subrotundis, acutis, obtuse-marginatis, ore subintegris. The 

 plant is frequent on the Alps of Lapland in cold moist situations. 

 The culm is triquetrous and acute-angled, but always smooth, 

 the spikclots, more especially the lower ones, are often somewhat 



