Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 145 



figured also in Loddiges' Cabinet. It is a native of South 

 America, and flowered last January in the stove of Messrs 

 Whitley and Co. Fulham. 



PI. 2412. Vestia lycioides, the only species at present known 

 of this genus, referred first by Mr. Brown to the Solanece, which 

 arrangement has been confirmed by JNlr. David Don from an 

 examination of the fruit. Native of ChWl—Lzipinus micro- 

 carpits, "foliis digitatis, calycibus verticillatis inappendicu- 

 latis: labio superiore emarginato inferiore bifido ter breviore, 

 leguminibus rhombeis hirsutis dispermis:" from Chili, and 

 differs fiom all the other Lupines by its small 2-seeded pods. 

 Hyoscyamiis orientalis, indigenous in Iberia.— Oxalis rosea, 

 raised by J. Walker, esq., of Southgate, from seeds from Chili, 

 and agreeing in all respects, excepting the intensity of the co- 

 lour, with the description and figure of Feuillee.— i/?«o«/a 

 parvifora, " inermis, foliis bijugis: foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis 

 integerrimis, corollis campanulatis, baccis oblato-sphsroideis 

 obhquis." Nearly allied \.o pentaphylla. From China ; culti- 

 vated in the stove of the magnificent establishment of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Chiswick. — Acacia diffusa : from the new 

 country beyond the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, and 

 belonging to the division of leafless Acacice pointed out by 

 Mr. Brown as almost peculiar to Terra Australis, — Calceolaria 

 corymbosa: this beautiful plant was also raised from seeds from 

 Chili by Mr. Walker. 



The public will not fail to notice the improved appearance of 

 these Numbers, and to welcome the supply of interesting no- 

 velties which they afford. 



Botanical Register. — Owing to the illness of the Editor, no 

 descriptions have been given in the three last numbers of this 

 work. We regret that we are from this cause still obliged to 

 postpone our notices. 



XXXI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



KOYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



/i PRIL U. — M. Arago communicated the results of the ex- 

 periments recently made in England on the liquefaction of 

 certain gaseous substances. 



M. Magendie gave an account of a pathological observation 

 made on a man who had lost the power of motion without 

 being deprived of sensation, and in whom the anterior part 

 of die spinal marrow was softened. This observation confirms 

 M. Magendie's experiments on the distinct functions proper 

 to the anterior and posterior origins of the nerves. 



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