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other parts of India, chiefly in the eastern Himalayan region. 
These, with the Wallichian and other herbaria, will serve as the 
foundation for the Flora Indica, which, should some aid be se- 
cured from the government and the East India Company, these 
courageous and excellent botanists propose to undertake. ean- 
while Dr. Hooker is already actively engaged with his Flora 
Nova-Zeelandie, which, followed by the Flora Tasmania, 
(both after the model of his Flora Antarctira,) will complete the 
botany of the Antarctic voyage under Capt. Sir James Ross. 
“When Dr. Hooker left England for India, he was engaged in 
working up the collections made by the lamented Dr. Vogel, in 
the ill-starred Niger expedition, under Capt. Trotter. The Niger 
Flora from the Leguminose. onward was therefore elaborated by 
Mr. Bentham; and the Spicilegia G'orgonica, a Catalogue of all 
the Plants as yet discovered in the Cape de Verd Islands, with 
many important botanical details and characters, contributed by 
Mr. Webb; and the whole illustrated by fifty plates. A biogra- 
phy of Dr. Vogel, translated from the German of Dr. Treviranus, 
in the Linnea, and his Journal of the voyage, up to the time of 
his fatal illness, preface the volume. 
The directors of the East India Company are distributing 
among botanists copies of the journals and posthumous papers 0 
the late Mr. Griffith, printed at Calcutta. Unfortunately the edi- 
tor appears not to know enough of botany to correct the most 
obvious slips of the pen or mistakes of the press, nor to omit 
mere crudities and rough guesses, placed upon paper only to aid 
the memory, and obviously as unfit for publication, as are the 
oceasional remarks, reflecting offensively upon other botanists. 
Two volumes of journals and itineraries have been issued ; one 
on the development of organs in Phanerogamous plants ; and one 
notes on the development and structure of the bigher Cryp- 
— plants; each of the latter with a large quarto atlas of 
ates, 
After an interval of four years a new part of the Transactions 
neus, whic wit 
Choripetalum. Mr. Miers contributes a new genus f the order 
Burmanniacee, with an arrangement -" the family. - Mr. Kip- 
