86 Rm/Ws Illustrations. 



the Island of Mauritius. Our readers are aware that one species 

 of jujube {Z. vulgaris Lam., i^hamnus 2izyphus L.) is cultivated 

 in Italy; but it is too tender for enduring the open air in this 

 country. (See Encyc. of Plants, p. 479.) A paper, by Colonel 

 Hall, entitled " Excursions in the Neighbourhood of Quito," 

 contains some interesting observations on temperature ; some of 

 which we have extracted, and intend to give under the head of 

 General Notices, as soon as we can find room. A number of 

 Himalayan plants are described in a paper of some length ; and 

 the volume concludes with an extract from a letter from Dr. 

 Poeppig to Dr. Hooker, giving an account of the writer's adven- 

 tures in South America, while travelling there for natural history 

 purposes. The plates are beautifully engraved ; and one of 

 them exhibits fruits of the different sorts of the jujube above 

 mentioned. They resemble small plums, or large cherries : 

 some are round, others heart-shaped, and others oblong and 

 pointed. The colour is a reddish brown, or a greenish yellow. 



Art. III. Royles Illustrations of the Botany and other Branches of 

 the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora 

 of Cashmere, 8fc. Part IV., containing from p. 105. to p. 1S6. 

 of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders ; with nine beautifully 

 coloured plates of plants. Folio. London. 205. 



The first order in this part is Dipterocarpese ; which, being 

 peculiarly Asiatic, we pass over. Ternstroem/«Ve<^, which Mr. 

 Royle, with Decandolle and Lindley, considers as including the 

 camellia, &c., is highly interesting. The process of tea-making 

 is described from the different conflicting authorities ; but, as 

 might have been expected, not so as to settle the numerous 

 doubts which exist as to several points of the process, and even 

 as to the plants from which the different kinds of tea are made. 

 Olacineae contains only Asiatic and African plants. Aurantiaceae 

 and ^ypericinese are the next orders in linear succession. The 

 latter contains several species common to Japan and Nepal, 

 which will, in all probability, endure the open air in Britain. 

 Guttiferae, HippocrateaVfi^, and Erythroxylese are Asiatic 

 orders. Malpighi«cfi'<:s includes plants both of Asia and Africa. 

 With pleasure we arrive at Acaxmese, all the individuals com- 

 posing which belong to temperate climates ; such as Europe, 

 North America, Tauris, Tatary, and Japan. There are none 

 of this order in the plains of India, or on the Neelgherry Moun- 

 tains ; but on the Himalayas there are several species of the 

 genus ^'cer. No fewer than seven new species have been dis- 

 covered in these mountains, at between 2000 ft. and 3000 ft. of 

 elevation. A new genus, Dobinae\ has been discovered : it is a 



