BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 207 
polia, Forst. Gen. t. 10.  Pukateria, Raoul, in Ann. Soc. Nat. 1844, p. 
120 ; 
1. G. lucida, Forst. Prodr. n. 401.—Scopolia lucida, Forst. Gen. 
p. 140, £. 70. Pukateria lucida, Raoul, l. c. Griselina lucida et litto- 
ralis, Raoul, Fl. N. Zeal. p. 22; Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. i. p. 98. 
New Zealand (Forster). 
IV. Cuphocarpus, Dene. et Planch, Rev. Hort. iv. ser. vol. iii. 1854, 
p.109. . 
1. C. aculealus, Dene. et Planch. 1. c.—Gastonia aculeata, Hortorum. 
Madagascar (Du Petit Thouars.). 
OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT 
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By J. J. Bennett, Esq., F.R.S. 
The principal business of this department during the year 1863 has 
consisted in the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Her- 
barium of various collections of plants from the Sandwich Islands and 
from the islands of the South Pacific; of Pavon’s collections of Mexi- 
can and Spanish plants; of Professor Pallas’s herbarium of European 
and Siberian plants; of the collection of Nepaul plants of Dr. Hamil- 
ton Buchanan ; of a further portion of Mr. Thwaites’s plants of Ceylon ; 
of Mr. Forbes’s plants of Madagascar and Mozambique ; of Martin’s 
and Schomburgk’s Guiana plants ; of Dr. Gillies’s collection of Chilian 
Composite ; of an extensive collection of plants of Southern Africa 
from various collectors; and of numerous specimens of Hepatice from 
the Cape of Good Hope, and from other quarters. In the re-arrange- 
ment of various families of plants, including Conifere, the genus 
Quercus, Okaracee, and portions of the general Cryptogamie collection, 
as well as of several portions of the collection of fruits and seeds, es- 
pecially those of the family of Palms. In the examination of the 
various collections recently received, and their partial arrangement, 
with a view to their incorporation in the herbarium. In the arrange- 
ment of large specimens of ‘Australian woods, and of some of the larger 
and more remarkable fruits, in the exhibition cases of the publie 
rooms, In the re-arrangement of various portions of the British 
