716 SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS TO VARIOUS WORKS, 



umbels of flowers, which are very numerous in each umbel, 

 and ovate-lanceolate leaves : Mr. Brown has named this 

 Hoy a nicobarica" Traill, Accounts and Desertions of 

 several plants belonging to the genus Hoya, &c., in the 

 ' Transactions of the Horticultural Society/ vol. vii, London, 

 1830. 



Mayna, Baddi. 



" Hire stellung im Natiirlichen System betreffend, reiht 

 sich unsere Pflanze unstreitig zunachst an die Flacour- 

 tianece und Bixinece. Wir haben sie vorlaufig mit Frage- 

 zeichen zu ersterer Familie in die Nahe von Hydnocarjms 

 gestellt, miissen aber dabei einer miindlichen 2Eusserung 

 R. Brown's gedenken, gemass welcher sie mit Hydnocarjms 

 und Gynocardia, Roxb., eine eigene Familie bilden diirfte, 

 deren Aufstellang unser unsterblicher meister hoffentlich 

 spater selbst ubernehmen wird. Zuccarini in Fasciculus 

 Secundus Plantarum Minus Cognitarum, in Abhandlungen 

 der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie, band ii, p. 368 

 (1837). 



Prof. Buckland acknowledges assistance from Mr. Brown, 

 in determining the nature of the fossils, for which he states 

 that, at Mr. Brown's suggestion, he had established a new 

 family with the designation Cycadoidece. Transactions of 

 Geological Society of London, 2nd series, vol. ii, p. 395. 

 [Bead June Qtk, 1828.) 



In a note following the Preface to. Dr. Buckland's 

 ' Bridgewater Treatise/ 2 vols., 8vo, 1836, the author 

 says — 



" The scientific reader will feel that much additional 

 value has been added to the present w T ork — from the 

 botanical part having been submitted to Mr. Robert 

 Brown." 



It is probable that most of the observations on the struc- 

 ture of Cycadece and Cycadeous fossils, both in this work 

 and in Prof. Buckland's Paper in the ' Geological Transac- 

 tions/ were contributed by Mr. Brown ; but the following 

 are the only particulars for which he is specifically quoted : 



