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buff colour it has acquired iis not remarkably fine. Perhaps some one 

 acquainted with dyeing might succeed in producing a better hue." 



The genus Calysaccion is allied to Kayea, Wall. ; and the only 

 species as yet discovered is C. longifoliura, Wight, a beautiful tree, 

 found in abundance on the top of the Malabar Ghauts in the South- 

 ern Mahratta country, in the West Mysore and Coorg, on the Parell 

 and Worlu Hills, Bombay, and in the Kennery jungles. The leaves 

 are opposite, oblong, coriaceous and evergreen. The flowers appear 

 in March and April, and are produced in clusters on the old wood ; 

 they are whitish-yellow streaked with red, and polygamous. The 

 male plant is called Woondy, the female Poonag ; while both are 

 known by the names of Suringee and Gordeoondy. The term Nag- 

 kessar, which is applied to the buds in commerce, is given to them in 

 India in common with those of several other Clusiaceae. 



An improved generic character of Calysaccion has been published 

 by Dr. Walpers (Bot. Zeit. vol. ix. p. 367) ; and all required now to 

 complete our knowledge of the plant is a description of its fruit, and 

 some information about the dye which the buds produce, and the 

 mode of extracting it. 



Occurrence of Orobanche ccerulea, Vill., and Acotntum Napellus, L., 

 in Monmouthshire. By F. J. A. Hort, Esq. 



On the 2nd of this month I had the pleasure of finding a single 

 specimen of Orobanche caerulea, Vill., by the side of a lane a mile or 

 two south-west of Chepstow. A plant of Achillea Millefolium, i., 

 grew two or three inches off; and, as none of the other usual victims 

 of the broomrapes were to be seen, that was doubtless the sufferer, 

 although I failed to trace the connexion. This discovery gives pro- 

 bability to the record for Glamorganshire in the ' Swansea Guide ' 

 (see Cyb. Brit. ii. 231). 



A week previously I had gathered Aconitum Napellus, Z., to which 

 I had been directed in the spring. About two miles to the west of 

 Chepstow is the southern end of a winding rent in the carboniferous 

 limestone hills. A more secluded valley can hardly be imagined, ex- 

 cept in a mountainous country. In the lower part the stream turns 

 several paper-mills ; but as you ascend you soon become clear of 

 them, and of all habitations The bottom of the highest reach of the 

 valley is occupied by a rough pasture, on the west side of which the 



