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all American languages, nor indeed any other indigenous tongue of 

 the New World, possesses a vernacular name for this plant. Even 

 Hernandez, who collected the Aztec names with the utmost care, 

 could find none, and was compelled to place the plantain near the 

 Quauhxilotl {Parmentiera edulis, DC), and call it Quauhxilotl altera; 

 the cucumber-like fruit of the Parmentiera appearing to him to form 

 the closest approach to that of the plantain." 



Mr. Bentham describes nine new species — Heisteria ovata, H. sub- 

 sessilis, Trichilia excelsa, T. macrophylla, T. ? microphylla, Simaba 

 foetida, S. angustifolia, Gomphia microdonta, and Chailletia vestita ; 

 also a new genus, under the name of Diplocrater, which has the small 

 flowers and fasciculate axillary inflorescence of Heisteria, but with 

 membranous leaves ; the ovary is divided only up to the insertion of 

 the ovules, they, as well as the axile placenta, being entirely free from 

 the summit of the cavity, as in Olax, &c., and the stamens equal to and 

 opposite the petals, as in Schoepffia. The general habit and foliage 

 remind the author strongly of the figure of Rhaptostylum, a. acumi- 

 natum, in Humboldt & Kunth's ' Nova Genera et Species,' viii. t. 

 621, but the structure of the flowers is very different. 



^Botanical Gazette^ Nos. 36 and 37, November and December, 1851. 



The November number contains the following papers :— 

 ' On the Name and Origin of the Horse-radish [Cochlearia rusti- 

 cana, Linn.), improperly called Armoracia and ' Cran de Bretagne ;' 

 by M. Alph.DeCandolle ; translated from the Bibliotheque Universelle 

 de Geneve.' . . ^ , . 



* On the Duration of certain Plants of the German Flora ; by Th. 

 Irmisch ; translated from the Botanische Zeitung.' 



' Proceedings of Societies ' [which have appeared in the August, 

 September, and October numbers of the ' Phytologist.'] 



Contents of ' Annals of Natural History,' Hooker's ' Journal of Bo- 

 tany,' the ' Phytologist,' and ' Botanische Zeitung.' 



' Record of liocalities :' — Potaraogeton Trichoides found by Mr. 

 Trimmer, in July, in a pond on Swardeston Common, Norfolk. 



Anachavis Alsinastrura in the Trent, found by Mr. Trimmer, at 

 Burton-on-Trent [as recorded in the ' Phytologist' for 1849.] 



* Molinia caerulea with variegated leaves at Macclesfield Moss.' 

 *Leersia oryzoides on the banks of the Mole ' [see October Phytol.], 



" between East Moulsey Church and Ember Mill, some half mile from 

 the tcrmijius of the Hampton Court Railway ;" by Mr. Watson. 



