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New Zealand; Camptoloma, from the south of Africa; Bryodes, from the 

 Mauritius ; Synthyris (to which Wulfenia reniformis, Benth. belongs), from 

 the west of North America; Radamcea and Raphispermum, from Mada- 

 gascar ; Micrargeria, from the East Indies ; Synnema = Pedicularis avana 

 Wall., from Ava. Otophylla, Silvia, and Graderia are separated from 

 Gerardia. As regards the special style of Bentham's Monograph, it is 

 characterised by the excellence of the natural division of the genera, and 

 the appropriate contraction of the forms; the new species are very nu- 

 merous. Webb has published some remarks upon the affinity of the genus 

 Campylanthus Rth., from the Canary Isles (Ann. Sc. nat. 3, iii, p. 33), 

 the position of which Bentham had left doubtful. It differs from the 

 Veronicese in the character of the stamens ; in the latter two posterior, 

 and in Campylanthus two anterior stamens are developed, as is also the 

 case in Anticharis and Achetaria. Webb places them in a distinct group, 

 in which we are more inclined to agree with him than when he wishes 

 to place it near to the Salpiglossidese and Solanacese, from which it differs in 

 the aestivation. 



SOLANICE.E. Cyphomandra Mart. Solani sp. R. P., described in a mono- 

 graph by Sendtner, differs from Solanum in its large connective (Ratisbon 

 Flora, 1845, pp. 161-76). New genera: Jochroma Benth. = Habrothamnus 

 Lindl. ol. (Bot. reg., 1845, tab. xx.), from Ecuador; Salpichroa and Hebe- 

 cladus Miers = Atropae sp. Amer. austr. (Lo.nd. Journ. of Bot., 1845, 

 p. 321) ; Lycioplesium and Chcenestes Mrs. = Lytii sp. Amer. austr. (ib. 

 pp. 330-36); Dorystigma Mrs. = Jaborosae sp. Chilensis, Hook. ol. (ib. 

 p. 347); Trechoneetes Mrs. (ib. p. 350), from Chili; Pionandra Mrs. = 

 Witheringiae sp. Mart., &c. (ib. p. 353). 



NOLANE.E. In 1844, Lindley, in the 'Botanical Register,' divided 

 Nolana into five natural genera, and characterised the species belonging to 

 them. Miers has recently also studied the characters of this small group 

 (1. c. pp. 365-469), and described a new type from Chili, Alibrexia (p. 505). 

 Miers regards it as a connecting link between Boraginacese and the Convol- 

 vulaceae : from the former it differs principally in its habit, and in the posi- 

 tion of the embryo ; from the latter in its distinct ovaries. Grabowskya (one 

 of the Boraginaceae according to Endlicher, of the Solanacese according to 

 others) forms the transition to the former, the Dichondrese to the latter. If 

 it is desired to preserve a limit between the Boraginacese and the Convol- 

 vulaceae, the Nolanese must either be regarded as a distinct family, and the 

 Dichondrese placed with them ; or, keeping in view the inflorescence and the 

 aestivation of the Boraginacese, both groups must be united with the Convol- 

 vulacese. However, Miers retains Grabowskya as a distinct tribe among the 

 Nolanacese, and leaves the Dichondrese with the Convolvulacese. 



ERYCIBEJS. Both the elder and the younger De Candolle, in the Pro- 

 domus (vol. ix), have separated Jfrycibe also, another connecting link between 



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