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ticis, basi obtiisis, apice acuminatis et longe cuspidatis, lucidis^ 

 prominenter reticulatis, margine cartilagineo subreflexo, sub- 

 tus pallidioribus, nervis venisque proniinulis; racemis tenni- 

 nabbuSj longiusculis, densitloris, tomentosis. — Brasilia, v. s. 

 in herb. Lindl. (Forrest, 26). 



Species valde peculiaris, A. marginaio, DC, proxinia : inter- 

 nodia 4 poll, dist.; foliola tirina, obscure viridia, uitentia, 3|^-4 

 poll, long., lj-1^ poll. lat. (sec. el. Chain, folia inferiora multo 

 majora, 9 poll, long., 3^ poll, lat.) ; petiolus 6-7 lin., petioluli 

 tenuiores, 5 lin. long., supernc canaliculati ; cirrhus simplex, 

 tenuieulus, 6 poll. long. ; racemi racbis pulverulenta, 4- poll, 

 long., fere e basi iloritera, circiter 30-iloraj pedicelli oppositi, 

 4 lin. long, (pleiique dcla])si), imo bractea 4 lin. long, donati; 

 calyx tubulosns, fulvido-pulverulentus, 5-dentatus, infra dentes 

 glandulis 20 biseriatiin dispositis instructus, 4 lin. long. ; co- 

 rolla in alabastro fulvo-tomentosa; niaturaj in specim. desunt, 

 sed sec. cl. Cham. 2-pollicares, extus (lobis utrinque) dense 

 farinoso-tomentosre, intus glabrae. 



[To be continued.] 



XLYII. — Oil the Existence of Animal Life at great Depths in 

 the Sea. By G. C. Wallich, M.D., E.L.S. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 

 Gentlemen, 



Any communication emanating from so distinguished an 

 authority on matters connected with the natural history of the 

 sea as Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, must at all times command the notice 

 of the scientific world. To quote that gentleman's words, 

 " Public attention having been of late attracted to the subject 

 of submarine telegraphy, and especially to the causes of failure 

 in several of these undertakings,^' the article " On a pre- 

 sumed Cause of Failure in Oceanic Telegraphy, and on the 

 Existence of Animal Life at Great Depths in the Sea," which 

 appeared in the ' Annals ' for the present month (April), must 

 have been hailed with even more than ordinary interest, inas- 

 much as the writer intimated his intention of making known 

 ''some facts" which had fallen under his own immediate ob- 

 servation. 



Mr. Jeffreys having done me the honour to allude to certain 

 statements of mine in connexion with the subject, I beg leave 

 to offer a few comments in reply, and request attention to the 

 connexion that exists between "the facts" actually recorded 

 and the " inferences " drawn from them. 



