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of Ulaitea; and Sidney Parkinson gives, tab. 199 of his unpublished 
* Drawings of Tahitian Plants,' a fine coloured illustration of the species, 
taken on the spot. To this is attached Solander's manuscript name, M. 
quadrifoliata, and under that name the plant is fully described in So- 
lander's manuseript volume just quoted. In the same herbarium we find 
that Robert Brown has substituted his manuscript name of M. Austrasie 
for M. quadrifolia, R. Brown, Prodr., and the specimens collected by 
himself in Port Jackson. M. erosa, Willd., is marked M. dentata, Roxb.; 
but we do not know whether Roxburgh's is merely a manuscript name, 
or was published in some Indian periodical. There are specimens with 
very minute leaves, collected by Aucher-Eloy in the East, and probably 
belonging to M. Aigyptiaca, not quoted by A. Braun under n. 37, ancy- 
lopoda. The names, ** Quayaquil, James.” are probably misprints for 
* Guayaquil, Jameson ;” and there seems to be some confusion with 
regards to Geyer’s specimens, the years when they were collected being 
probably quoted instead of the numbers. His n. 450 we take to be 
M. vestita, Hook. et Grev. The New Caledonian M. mutica may per- 
haps prove identical with the Vitian species, provisionally named M. 
quadrifolia, in Seemann's list. There are no specimens of M. hirsuta, 
B. Brown, and M. angustifolia, R. Brown, in the public collection, but 
through Mr. Bennett’s kindness we have been able to examine those 
of Brown’s private herbarium. There are specimens of M. hirsuta 
from Broad Sound and the Gulf of Carpentaria ; their petiole and leaf- 
lets are hirsute, their fruit solitary, erect, ovate, compressed, and densely 
covered with long sericeous chestnut-coloured hair. None of the spe- 
cimens of M. angustifolia, all of which were collected in the Gulf of 
Carpentaria, have fruit, and they look like young and starved specimens 
of M. hirsuta. The leaflets are cuneate-lanceolate, and either acute or 
dentate at the point, the leaflets are less covered with hairs than those 
of M. hirsuta, but there is the same tuft of brown sericeous hairs at 
the meeting-place of the petiolules, and also the long sericeous chestnut- 
coloured hair at the base of the petioles, and the rosettes, as in the 
species just mentioned. 
Professor Braun concludes his valuable paper with an account of 
Pilularia, enumerating four species, viz.— 
PILULARIA, Vaill. 
a. Peduneles erect. 
1. P. globulifera, Linn. Northern temperate regions of Europe and Asia. 
