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Notice of^ TJie Naturalist^ No. 5, July, 1851. 



The only botanical paper is a continnation of * Notes on a Botani- 

 cal Stroll from Plymouth to Bickleigh Vale, going and returning by 

 different routes ; by Isaiah W. N. Keys.' It contains nothing on 

 which I can offer a comment. 



Notice of Hooker's' Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany,^ 



No.^l, July, 1851. 



The communications to this number are intituled : — 



' S*econd Report on Mr. Spruce's Collections of Dried Plants from 

 North Brazil ; by George Bentham, Esq. Continued.' 



' Decades of Fungi ; by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Decade xxxvi. Sikkim - Himalayan Fungi, collected by Dr. 

 Hooker.' 



' Contributions to the Botany of Western India ; by N. A. Dalzell, 

 Esq., M.A. Continued.' 



' Letter from Dr. Andrew Sinclair on the Vegetation, &c., of the 

 Neighbourhood of Auckland, New Zealand.' 



' A Letter from Dr. De Vriese to Robert Brown, Esq., on a new 

 Species of Rafflesia in the Island of Java, discovered by MM. J. E. 

 Teysman and S. Binnendijk.' 



' Extract from a Letter of the Rev. W. Colenso, relating to a 

 second Species of New Zealand Flax — Phormium.' 



Mr. Bentham's paper contains descriptions of eleven species, all of 

 the order Sapindacese ; these are — Serjania nitidula, S. platycarpa 

 and S. hebecarpa, Paullinia spicata, P. interrupta, P. pachycarpa, 

 Schmidelia leptostachya, Sapindus cerasinus, S. oblongus, Cupania 

 geminata, C. Spruceana and C. frondosa. 



Mr. Dalzell describes twelve new species from Western India — 

 Guatteria fragrans, Unona pannosa, Sageraea laurina, of the order 

 Anonacese ; Smithia capitata, S. setulosa, Galictia simplicifolia, Pha- 

 seoluspauciflorus, Crotalariaepunctata, Glycine Warrensis, and Alys- 

 sicarpus parviflorus, of the order Leguminosae ; Ophelia pauciflora, of 

 the order Gentianeae ; and Pimpinella monoica, of the order Umbel- 

 liferse. The genus Sagaraea of Dalzell, of the tribe Bocageae, is cha- 

 racterized for the first time. 



