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systematic determination of the plants figured is entirely 

 wanting a deficiency caused by the early death of 

 Mertens. The vegetation of tropical forests has, in 

 fact, never been more distinctly represented than in these 

 landscapes, except by Rugendas. The characteristic 

 types of the most important physiognomical forms of 

 tropical foliage are principally found in the following 

 plates : Bamboo form, indicated by Artocarpm (pi. X) ; 

 Banana, form expressed by the Rhizophorce of the man- 

 grove forests (pi. V), and stems of Ficus supported by 

 aerial roots (pi. VI) ; Cycadese (pi. XI), Palmese (pi. IX, 

 XVI), MusaceaB (pi. VII), Pandanus (pi. X, XI, XII, 

 XV), and that of the Tree-ferns (pi. XVI). Of other 

 physiognomical forms, Lianes (pi. VIII, XV), Freycinetia 

 (pi. VI), parasitical Ferns (pi. V, VI), Aroidese (pi. VII), 

 Agave, imitated by stemless species of Pandanus (pi. XI, 

 XII), herbaceous Ferns (pi. VIII). PI. XIII represents 

 the savannahs on the Marian Islands ; grass plains with 

 Casuarina, Cycas, and Pandanus. 



Suttor's paper, read before the Linnsean Society, upon 

 the Forest Trees of New Holland contains, according to 

 the extracts before us, only well-known facts (Ann. Nat. 

 Hist., xiii, p. 217). Drummond's Letters from the Swan 

 River have been continued (Lond. Bot. Journ., 1844, 

 pp. 263, 300). They contain, for the most part, notices 

 of individual plants which were transmitted to Hooker. 

 The extensive herbaria brought by Preiss from the Swan 

 River have been systematically described in detail in a 

 separate work, edited by Lehmann, by a number of scien- 

 tific men, mostly Germans (Plantse Preissianae sive enu- 

 meratio plantarum, quas in Australasia occidentali et 

 meridionali occidentali collegit L. Preiss. Ed. Chr. 

 Lehmann. Vol. i. Hamburgh!, 1844-1845, 8vo). The 

 coadjutors were Bartling, Bunge, Klotzsch, Lehmann, 

 Meissner, Miquel, Nees v. Essenbeck, Putterlick, Schauer, 

 Sonder, Steetz, Steudel, and De Vriese. Summary of 

 the families treated of, with the enumeration of new 

 genera, and those containing most species : 247 Legu- 



