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the observation of later writers, has been recently discarded even 

 from the lists of genera published by Dr. Bartling and Professor 

 Lindley. Notwithstanding some curious errors in the Linnaean cha- 

 racter, one of which led to a singular misplacement of it in the Lin- 

 nsean system, Mr. Brown satisfied himself of the identity of Dr. Hors- 

 field's plant, with that described by Linnaeus, long before he found 

 the latter in the Linnsean Herbarium, in which no specimen existed 

 in its proper place or under its published name. He afterwards dis- 

 covered, however, among the unarranged plants of that collection 

 two several specimens, one of them accompanied by a MS. generic 

 character under the name of Codaria ; and both in all respects iden- 

 tical with the plant here figured and described. To the rediscovery of 

 the plant must be added that of its true place in the natural system, 

 which had never even been suspected, the errors of the Linnsean cha- 

 racter offering an apparently fatal objection to its position among 

 Rubiacea, where it will henceforward take its place in the neighbour- 

 hood of Wendlandia. With this genus, and with the XantJiophytnm 

 of Dr. Blume, Mr. Bennett compares it, and states that he is strongly 

 inclined to regard it as identical with a species originally referred by 

 that author to Chiococca, but since transferred by him to Xanthophy- 

 ium. He describes its most remarkable peculiarity as consisting " in 

 the large size and occasional cohesions of its epigynous disk. This 

 disk, which in the early stage forms merely a thickened fleshy ring 

 surrounding the base of the style, and free from any adhesion to the 

 corolla, gradually enlarges in most cases so as completely to fill the 

 lower half of the tube of the corolla, with the thickened and nar- 

 rowed part of which it at length occasionally coheres below the 

 point of insertion of the anthers, and even sometimes becomes ad- 

 herent with the latter at their base, as well as with the portion of 

 the style which It surrounds. More commonly these adhesions do 

 not take place ; and the fleshy disk is sometimes little or not at all 

 developed beyond its original size." 



In the twenty-fourth article Mr. Brown describes, under the name 

 of Loxotis obliqua, an elegant little plant of the tribe of Cyrtandracee, 

 found by himself in the Island of Timor near Coepang in the year 

 1803, and since collected by Dr. Horsfield and probably also by Dr. 

 Blume in many parts of Java. To the genus Mr. Brown had ori- 

 ginally given In his MSS. the name now adopted, but afterwards 

 changed it, on the request of Mr. Ferdinand Bauer (whose drawing, 

 made on the spot, furnishes the materials for a most beautiful plate) 

 for that of Antonia, under which it was introduced by Mr. Bauer 

 into a celebrated flower-piece, painted in honour of the late Baron 



