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arrived to so great an extent, — and not alone from Dr. Wal- 

 lich, but also from Dr. Wight of Madras, — that the authors 

 contemplate, under the sanction and patronage of the Hon. 

 the Board of Directors of the East India Company, to form 

 for them a new and separate publication, under the title of 

 Filices Asiatics Rariores [Rarer Asiatic Ferns], to appear on 

 the same size and plan as the Planta; Asiatics Rariores. 



Blume, Carolus Ludovicus, M. D., lately Investigator of Na- 

 ture in the Dutch Colonies of the East Indies, Super- 

 intendent of Medicine, and Director of a Botanic Garden 

 there, &c. &c, aided by Joa?mes Baptista Fisher, M.D. : 

 Flora Javee, necnon Insularum adjacentium. With litho- 

 graphic and copperplate engravings, coloured. Brus- 

 sels, 1828, folio. Frank, Brussels; Treuttel and Wiirtz, 

 London. 



Dr. Blume's Flora of Java and the Islands adjacent is a 

 work of great interest, from the following circumstances : — 

 1. Dr. Blume is an able systematic botanist; and manifests, 

 by his elaborate elucidation of details, that superficiality is not 

 one of his characteristics. 2. The vegetable furniture of Java 

 has hitherto been but limitedly known in Europe : hence the 

 subjects of the Flora Java? are likely to be interesting from 

 their novelty. 3. The work is executed, both in its plates 

 and letterpress, so admirably, that it is an eligible object for 

 introduction into the best of libraries. 



The work is intended to be completed in 100 folio numbers, 

 aud of these 35 are already published ; but, owing to the late 

 prevalence of political strife in Belgium, the work has been 

 for some time suspended, but its publication will be resumed 

 as soon as the state of Belgic politics will permit. In the 

 interim, the parties interested in the work are endeavouring to 

 make it better known in London, and doubtless other places ; 

 and to this endeavour we must say we wish all success ; for a 

 work of such merit deserves to be extensively known and pos- 

 sessed. It is true, that, of the 35 numbers published, we have 

 not seen many, and those we have seen are possibly the more 

 attractive ones, as the subjects they contain are mainly trees 

 and shrubs : but even if so, the general tone and character of 

 the work furnish a sufficient assurance that the less attractive 

 portions of it will be at least botanically interesting. From 

 the first number we shall present a short notice of two plants 

 of extraordinary interest: Raffles/a Patma Blume, and a near 

 relative of it, Brugmansza Zippel/z Blume. RafHesm Patma 

 Blume is nearly . related to RafBesm ArnoldzY of Brown. 

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