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1. Plante Javanice “Rariores, descripte iconibusque illustrate, quas 
in Insula Java, annis 1802-1818, legit et investigavit Tuomas Horse- 
FieLD, M. D.: ¢ siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum elabora- 
‘vit Joannes I. Bennerr; observationes structuarum et affinitates praser- 
tim respicientes passim adjecit Ropertus Brown. London, fol. Part I, 
1838; pp. 104, tab. 1-25.—Part If, 1840; pp. 90, tab. 26-40. This 
work is filled with profound observations upon various points in systematic 
and structural botany, by Mr. Brown, and his worthy associate, Mr. Ben- 
nett, (the present secretary of the Linnean society,) who has elaborated 
the greater portion of the work. In a note annexed to his revision of the - 
Cyrtandree, which occupies a portion of the second part, Mr. Brown has 
contributed a series of condensed, but most important remarks upon the. 
structure of the ovarium, placente, and stigmata; and has also expressed 
his dissent from a recent theory respecting the origin of ovula, (advocated 
by Schleiden, Endlicher, Lindley, &c.) viz. that the ovula do not belong 
to the transformed leaf or carpel itself, (except, perhaps, in a few. cases,) 
but are borne on the axis, or on processes of the axis united with the car- 
pels ; a view which the analogy of ovula with buds would readily sug- 
gest. Mr. Brown defends the prevalent theory, in the following brief re- 
marks. ‘‘ That the placenta and ovula really belong to the carpel alone, 
is at least manifest in all cases where stamina are changed into pistilla. 
To such monstrosities I have long since referred in my earliest observa- 
tions on the type of the female organ in phenogamous plants, (in Linn. 
Soc. Trans. vol. 12, p. 89,) and since more particularly in my paper on 
Raflesia : (ibid, vol. 13, p. 212,) the most remarkable instances alluded 
to in illustration of this point being Sempervivum tectorum, Salix oleifolia, 
aud Cochlearia armoracia; in all of which every gradation between the 
perfect state of the anthera, and its transformation into a complete pistil- 
um, is occasionally found.” The third and concluding part of the work 
is said to be in progress. 
2. Hooker's Icones Plantarum: Part VII. In former numbers of 
this Journal we have already directed the attention of American botanists 
to this excellent work, and mentioned the plan upon which it is con- 
ducted. The seventh part, containing 50 plates, (viz. tab. 301 to 350,) 
includes perhaps fewer North American species than usual. Among 
them, however, are figures of our three species of the singular genus 
Cercocarpus ; and also of five Californian Composite, viz : Actinolepis 
multicaulis, DC., Madaraglossa heterotricha, DC., Hartmannia? pun- 
&ens, Hook. & Arn., Monolopia minor, DC., and M.mqor, DC, P late 
323 represents: a species of the genus Garrya, from the mountains 
of Jamaica! “The very remarkable genus to which this plant belongs, 
