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tinuea regularly progressing in tliat respect, is certainlj one which prepares the 
way for the transfer, in due course of time, of the cuhivation under considera- 
tion to private industry ', and, in fact, that principle has been aheady acted on 
in part, for at the end of December, 1863, not less than 7532 quinine plants 
were dejirered to private individuals at Ootacamund on payment of the stipu- 
lated price of 30 cents each plant. 
** Should our enlightened Government, therefore, abandon — as I hope will be 
the case — the present mode of cultivation in Java, and replace it by the English 
one, not only will new prospects he opened for private enterprise, but another 
result will ensue, one to which I may be allowed to direct special attention 
in a few concluding words. It is to be regretted that the summits of many 
high mountains in Java have been so completely stripped of trees, that the Go- 
vernor-General, Mr. Duymaer Van Twist, was induced some time ago to entrust 
to Mr. Junghuhn the tast of superintending the then remaining forests. As 
it is necessary to plant the quinine trees at a great elevation, at least at a higher 
one than the coffee plantations, the English mode of cultivation would afford 
the means of covering those naked summits agjiin with woods, even if it were 
only with a low growth of timber. The cost of planting woidd be amply re- 
covered by the produce of the quinine bark thereby obtained, and the trees, 
when stripjjed of the bark, would supply the fuel now so scarce in that 
country." 
of the Plants of 
'^f 
By Bert- 
hold Seemann, Ph.D., F.L.S., T.E.G.S., etc. With 100 coloured 
plates, by AY. Fitch, F.L.S. 4to. Parti. Loudon : Eeeve and Co. 
1865. 
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It may not be deemed out of place if we give a brief account of the 
contents of tlie first part of this work, thougli anything like criticism 
is, of course, out of tlie question. The work owes its origin to the 
Government Mission to Viti, to which, at Sir W. J, Hooker's sugges- 
tion, the author was attaclied, for the purpose of exploring the islands 
The ' riora Vitiensis ' will be completed in ten parts, and comprise, 
when finished, 400 pages of letterpress and 100 coloured plates, ilKis- 
trating the vegetation of the Viti, Fiji, or Cannibal islands. More than 
20 per cent, of the Flora are entirely new to science. The first part 
embraces 27 Natural Orders, from RanuucnlacecB to CelaHirine^ ; among 
them are two new genera, Flmia {StercvUacem) and Gnrffia {Tiliacea), 
and 18 new s^iddes—FoIr/aWiia Vitiensis, Ahodeia Slorclii, Gar- 
cinia pmdogidtifera, Cahjsaccion tindorium, TernHtroemia Vitiensis, 
Hihi$cm Sforckii, Gossi/pium tomentosum, Slerciflia Vitiends, FAcvocar- 
