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of the inflorescence of the Maize, the author illustrated several changes from the 
normal sexual characteristics of the florets. : The male panicles, for example, 
were shown to. produce, along with their own kind of florets, perfect female 
turally hermaphrodite florets. Similar changes were also illustrated in the 
female spikes. 4, Remarks on some of the Economical Plants of India. By 
Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, Dr. Cleghorn noticed the Basel i: Olive, the B amboo, 
and Urtica heterophylla, and mentioned their uses. n the Cultivation of 
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EoD of Chinchonas at Darjeeling was at first attended with great difficulties, 
but these have now been overcome. 6, On the Cultiyation of Tea in India. By 
William Jameson, Esq., Surgeon-Major, Saharunpore. Mr. Jameson gave an 
account of the fe pni ene à in the Kohistan of the North-West Provinces of 
India. In a former communication he estimated the penis of waste. and 
other lands fitted for ds Roa with tea throughout the Kohistan of the 
North-Western Provinces and Punjaub and Dhoons, and showed that by them 
the enormous quantity of 885,000,0001b. might be there raised. But in this 
estimate he excluded the Kohistan of Huzarah and Rawul Pindee, of Cash- 
mere Jummoo and the protected Sikh States, The following estimate, 
as a general return when in full bearing, lOOlb. per acre may be given,—a 
quantity equal to the whole export trade of China, and with high cultivation 
the figures might easily be doubled, and thus not only allow an immense 
quantity for the consumption of the Indian community, but at the same time 
afford a supply for export to other countries. Tea cultivation in the North- 
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Lawers, Perthshire. By Professor Balfour. (Journ. of Bot. Vol. I. p. 355.) 
Borantcat Socrery or EDINBURGH.—Jan. 14.—1. New Researches in 
the interior of the country, and has also reached the head of the great central 
lake of MAE s Island. From the Upper Fraser he obtained a quantity of 
seed of a fine pasture grass, which survives all winter, and which he expects 
will be i suited for the Hebrides aud the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 
Among the interesting additions to his collections he mentions three new s 
of , a large new Taxus, Cupressus Nutkanus, , Thuja Craigana, a new 
Pinus, a fine new Oreodaphne, ete. 3. Letters from WN Milne, Old Ca- 
labar. Mr. Milne thus describes the leading characteristics of the district 
Where he is :—* There are five species of Melastoma, six of Dracena, five of 
