BOTANICAL GEOGRAPHY. 457 



be only an abridgment of his previous work (see Gardner's 

 remarks in the Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1845, p. 565). As 

 stated in a letter, a memoir by Madden upon the Coniferae 

 of India is contained in the ' Quarterly Med. and Lit. 

 Journal/ 1845, pp. 34-118, published at Delhi. Gardner, 

 the Brazilian traveller, who is now superintendent of the 

 garden at Columbo in Ceylon, has reported upon his 

 botanical excursions in Nielgherry (1. c. pp. 393-409 and 

 551-67) ; he enumerates the localities of the plants exist- 

 ing there. 



De Vriese has commenced publishing an illustrated 

 work upon select plants of the Dutch East Indian posses- 

 sions (Nouvelles Recherches sur la Flore des Possessions 

 Neeiian daises aux Indes Orientales. Fasc. 1, with 3 

 plates. Amsterdam, 1845, fol.) : it contains a description 

 of some new Styraceae from Sumatra and Java, a figure 

 of Casuarina sumatrana, as also of the new Pinus Mer- 

 kmii from Sumatra. Hasskarl has continued his remarks 

 upon various points relating to the plants of Java both 

 in the ' Ratisbon Flora' (1845, pp. 225 et seq., containing 

 the Rubiaceae), as also in V. d. Hoeven's Zeitschrift 

 (Bd. 12, pp. 77 et seq., comprising the Malvaceae and the 

 allied families) . Montagne is describing the Lichens and 

 Mosses of the Philippine Isles, from Gumming 5 s collec- 

 tions (Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1845, pp. 3-11). 



III. AFRICA. 



Fresenius has published Contributions to the Flora of 

 Abyssinia froniRiippelPs collections (Mus. Senckenbergian. 

 vol. iii, 1845) : containing copious descriptions of those 

 Polygonese which have already been made known, and 

 some new Synantheraceae. 



He gives, at the same time, a figure of the Lobeliaceous tree of Abyssinia, 

 Gibarra (Rhynchopetalum montanum = Jibera of the preceding Ann. Rep.), 

 and has represented its habit as follows : from 6'-7' in height, stem hollow, a 

 crown of lanceolate leaves and tall bunches of flowers ; hence the dimensions 

 of the plants observed by Ruppell in Simen, between 11,000' and 12,000' 



