Linneean Society. 217 



In the notes to the paper Mr. Bentham characterizes several un- 

 describcd species of Olax in the following terms : 



O. nana (Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. G783.) sufFruticosa ? glabriuscula, ra- 

 iiiis ercctis parcu raraosis, foliis subsessilibiis oblongis lanceolatisvc ob- 

 tusis vix niucronulatis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis 1-floris, calyce 

 libeio, staminibus sterilibus bifidis. — Napalia ? Wallich. 



O. acuminata (Wall. /. c. n. G781.), fruticosa scandens ? glabra, ramis an- 

 gulatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, racemis brevibus distichis 

 paucilloris, cal3'ce toro incrassato basi breviter adnato, staminibus ste- 

 rilibus bifidis. — Sillet, Waliich. 



O. macrojj/ii/Ua, glaberrima, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis inaequila- 

 teris, racemis axillaribus brevibus distichis, calycibus glabris ovarii 

 basi adnatis : margine libero truncato, staminibus sterilibus integris v. 

 vix emarginatis, ovario glabro. — In Monte Padawan GuianjE Anglicae, 

 Sckomburffk. 



O. jyauciflora, foliis ovatis junioribus ramulis pediccllisque puberulis, pe- 

 duncuiis axillaribus 1 — 3-floris, calycibus molliter pubescentibus ovarii 

 basi adnatis : margine libero brevissimo truncato, staminibus sterilibus 

 longe bifidis, ovario villoso. — Scrra Acurua Provincire Bahiensis Bra- 

 silia ; Blanchet, n. 2795. — An hue Dulacia singularis, Veil. Fl. Flum. ? 



January 19, 1841. — Mr. Forster, V.P., in the Chair. 

 Mr. Mann, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of Sedum Telephium, 

 which had been preserved for two years in his Herbarium, and still 

 continued to send forth buds. 



Mr. Babington, F.L.S., exhibited some Fir-cones taken from be- 

 neath about ten feet of solid peat at Burrishoole, near Newport, co. 

 Mayo, where they were accompanied by nuts of Corylus Avellana. 

 He stated that the trees in that ])art of Ireland had all been de- 

 stroyed for about 200 years, and that no individuals of either species 

 now occur within very many miles, except a few planted of late 

 years and far from this locality. Professor Don remarked, that the 

 Cones differed from either of the varieties of Pinus sylvestris at pre- 

 sent found in Scotland ; and that they so entirely resembled those of 

 the alpine form of that sjiecies, iigured by Jacquin under the name of 

 Pinus Mughus, as to leave but little doubt of their identity. He 

 added, that he regarded Pinus Pumilio as only another form of the 

 same species. 



Read, " A Description of a new genus of Linea." By Charles 

 Cardale Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



This genus, which Mr. Babington regards as assisting to establish 

 more fully the relationship of Linea to Malvacece, is stated to differ 

 from the usual structure of Linece by its imbricated and not contorted 

 petals, which are also not unguiculate, although slightly attenuated 

 below, and by the remarkably thick coats of its one-seeded, perfectly 

 closed carpels. Its essential character is given as follows : 



CLIOCOCCA. 



Sepala 5, Integra. Petala 5, in sestivatione imbricata. Stamina 5, Caj)- 

 sula 10-locularis; luculis clausis indeliiscentibus. 



The plant on which the genus is founded was raised in the Cam- 

 bridge Botanic Garden from seeds gathered in the interior of New 



