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other flowers on the same plant, sometimes even in those on the same 

 branch, the ovary being immature when the plant was gathered, it is 

 stalked, apparently in consequence of the shrinking of the lower part 

 in the manner described. 



Lastly : as a necessary consequence of the above conclusions, and 

 in the absence of more positive evidence than any we at present pos- 

 sess, I think I shall be warranted in considering the numerous forms 

 of the two plants as all belonging to one variable species. 



I shall be gratified by receiving specimens of any form of these 

 plants for further examination ; and earnestly hope that the subject 

 will be taken up by more able botanists, who will favour the public 

 with the result of their enquiries. Geo. Luxford. 



Gb, Ratcliff Highway, October 25, 1842. 



Art. XCV. — Some Account of the Botanical Collections recently 

 made hy Dr. Theodore Kotschy (for the Wurtemhiirg Botani- 

 cal Union) in Nubia and Cordofan.* Communicated by Mr. 

 William Pamplin, jun. 

 The collection of dried Nubian plants (amounting to nearly four 

 hundred species) made by Dr. Theodore Kotschy in 1839, possesses 

 so much interest, not only to the members of the Wurtemburg Union 

 among whom the plants are distributed, but also to the botanical world 

 at large, that Dr. Schnizlein, in the hope of rendering an acceptable 

 service to botanical Geography, has kindly undertaken the task of 

 enumerating and comparing them with the materials already known 

 as forming part of the Floras of Egypt, Arabia, Eastern India and 

 Western Africa. So favourable an opportunity of acquiring a know- 

 ledge of the vegetation of the eastern part of Africa, will not probably 

 soon occur again. 



In the first place, with respect to the condition of the plants, it is 

 quite evident, on inspection, that they have been prepared with great 

 care ; of some there are specimens both in flower and fruit ; all are 

 exceedingly well preserved ; and of many species the specimens are 

 numerous. We find twenty species in the most excellent state ; two 

 hundred and fifty-six in perfectly good condition ; and only about 

 forty which are not quite complete, or, in other words, less perfect : 

 in fact, altogether, they could not have been expected to amve in a 



* Translated and abridged from the ' Regensberg Flora oder Botanische Zeitung ' 

 for 1842. 



