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* The paragraph extracted from one of my letters, ne. go abiens on 
the 27th February last, Deu the gigantic Aroid disco s in the 
mountains of Nicaragua ad the good fortune to ee he rounds, not 
an, an 
rather understated than overstated the case. It is in a pot of only eleven 
inches in diameter, and on the mp ii J i fol ee ox the leaf ie plant 
has only one leaf at a time) was s inches in c emn r- 
ence. The blade is deem P imd dev veloped on I believe "that pie this comm 
nication sees the light, the petiole will have attained more than ten feet. 
height it had in E: died It ds like a ne ron snake (oranti ore) 
standing bolt upright at the command of some Eastern 
ly m joie and Mosquito, and aroja a note on India- 
creeper which the Rubber collectors use for thickening the milky juice 
of the trees, and which Dr. Seemann from native description conjec- . 
tured to be an Apocynea, has now been ascertained by him to be a 
Convolvulacea, Calonyction speciosum. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Under the title * Echoes in Plant and Flower Life, Mr. Leo H. Grindon has 
published (London, Pitman) a small book on the superficial resemblances in 
habit and structure of plants whose inner organization is widely different, and 
to which the term “ Mimicry " (see Vol. VI. pp. 182, 213), had previously, but 
ped been applied. 
i a short illness, on the 15th of July, at Teplitz, Heinrich Ludwig 
