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two very different families. There can be no doubt that Reyesia (Pteroglossis) 
is a genus of the Salpiglossidee, not belonging to Scrophulariacee, according 
my view, but to Atropacee, a family intermediate between that Order and 
eom oid (Ill. So. Am. PL i. 172). In regard to Monttea (Oxycladus), you 
alter this conviction. M. Bureau, however, conceives it should form a new tribe 
of the Scrophulariacew, osculant with the tribe Antonice, belonging to Lo- 
ganiacee. But the want of albumen naa excludes the genus from the 
Loganiacee.as well as from the Scrophulariacee, while it renders it admissible 
acee 
Scrophulariacee, but we have the authority of Mr. Bentham, one of the most 
learned botanists of our time, for attributing to that genus a cartilaginous 
albumen, though unusually thin ; it would indeed be a great anomaly to find a 
seed, with a very lax membranaceous testa, e a much shorter and thicker 
ca eous inner integument investing the e 
I have only to remark, in conclusion, that my C ed laxa must remain 
a synonym of Reyesia Chilensis ; but in regard to Ménttea, it appears to me a 
name far too close to Méntia to be sustained, both being pronounced nearly 
alike; and in order to avoid confusion, I would suggest the retention of that 
were not published till 1851; but if M. Gay’s name be preserv: my 
lant, as a species distinct from that he has described, would bear the title of 
Monttea aphylla. 
Joun Mires. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
-Études sur les Genres REYESIA et Monttea, et Observations sur 
la tribu des Platycarpées de M. Miers. Par M. Édouard Bureau. 
(Reprinted from the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France.) 
In this paper M. Bureau has taken up several questions which have 
been agitated in this country. It will be remembered that Mr. Miers 
maintained that the genera Platycarpum and Henriquezia were Bignonia- 
ceous, a view in which he was supported by Mr. Bentham,—or rather 
Mr. Bentham first expressed his belief that Zenriquezia and the allied 
