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translated from the Dutch. ' Florula Hongkongensis ; by George 

 Bentham.' * Abstract of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald ; by Berthold 

 Seemaim.' Notices of Griffith's ' Palms of British India,' Bertoloni's 

 ' Miscellanea Botanica,' and Bertoloni's ' lllustrazioni di Piante Mo- 

 zambigesi.' 



The new plants described in the continuation of the Hong-Kong 

 Florula are : — Milletia speciosa, Cliamp.^ M. Charapioni, Bth., Bow- 

 ringia callicarpa, Champ, (gen. Sophorearum, affine Baphiae), Ormo- 

 sia ? pachycarpa, Champ., Csesalpinia vernalis, Champ., Phanera 

 Champiorii, Blh., Albizzia? Charapioni, Bth., and Eriobotrya fra- 

 grans. Champ. 



The journal of the voyage of H.M.S. ' Herald ' describes Mr. See- 

 mann's stay at Singapore, his voyage through the Straits of Sunda to 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and accounts of the Gambir, the Isonandra 

 Gutta, the arrow-root, and various other interesting productions of the 

 Indian Archipelago. 



No. 40 contains : — ' Decades of Fungi ; by M. J. Berkeley ;' (in 

 which seventeen new species of Agaricus are described). ' Contribu- 

 tions to the Botany of Western India ; by N. A. Dalzell.' ' Notice 

 of Dammara raacrophylla, Lindl., a new Conifera ; by Sir W. J. 

 Hooker.' ' Florula Hongkongensis ; by George Bentham.' •' Note 

 on the Spines of Cactuses ; by Berthold Seeraann.' * Botanical In- 

 formation : — Dr. A. Blanco ; Bourgeu's Spanish Plants ; Drumraond's 

 Plants of Western Australia ; Superstitions with regard to the Glas- 

 tonbury Thorn.' Notices of Harvey's ' Nereis Boreali-Americana ' 

 and Jaubert and Spach's * Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium.' 



In the Contribution to Indian botany the following new species are 

 described : — ' Casearia graveolens, Dalz., C. laevigata, Dalz., C. 

 rubescens, Dalz., Marrubium Malcolmianura, Dalz., Diospyros pani- 

 culata, Dalz., D. pruiens, Dalz., D. nigricans, Dalz., D, Goindu, 

 Dalz., Eria uniflora, Dalz., Dendrobium crispum, Dalz., Cassia Goen- 

 sis, Dalz., Typhonium bulbiferum, Dalz., Lycopodium enipetrifolium, 

 Dalz., L. miniatosporum, Dalz., L. ca3spitosum, Dalz., and L. curva- 

 tum, Dalz. 



In the Flora of Hong Kong we find enumerated as new : — Meme- 

 cylon ligustrifolium. Champ., Acmena Charapioni, Bth., Begonia 

 Bowringiana, Champ., Hedera parviflora. Champ., and H. protea. 

 Champ. 



