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Malay region, India, Mexico, and the West Indies together possess 
two-thirds of the known species. 
sulnesque's genus, and figured the species, in an earlier and more con- 
siderable work (Flora of the State of New Y ork), which, having unfor- 
tunately been published by the State, and in a large edition, has it 
consequence remained almost unknown to science. Considering that the 
three sepals of the fertile flower in this species are nearly equal and not 
gibbous, it may be doubted whether the single species of Blume’s genus 
Achudemia, dffering only in having five sepals, should not rather be 
appended to Pilea. We dare say that Dr. Weddell would have so ar- 
tanged it, if Blume had not published the genus. 
: Since the appearance of the third part of Weddell’s monograph, but 
vetore It had reached this country, Dr. Torrey has published, in the Re- 
ae on Dr, Bigelow’s fine California collection made in Lieut. Whipple’s 
ilroad Survey to the Pacific, a new Nettle, allied to Baehmeria but with 
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the penicillate stigma of Urtica, viz. his Hesperocnide tenella (Pacific 
Present monograph. The stigma is intermediate in character between 
of Chamebaina an 
eanwhile, his other undertakings are carried on with 
ina, a flora of the higher Andes, three fasciculi have 
rmer notice of the work, and we understand that 
