Catalogue ofWorJcs on Gardening, %c. 85 



plates are scientifically and beautifully drawn and coloured, and each is ac- 

 companied by numerous dissertations. 



Description d'une Nouvelle Espece de Figuier (jPicus Saussurea?z«}. Par Aug. 

 Pyr, de Candolle. 



This new species of i^kus was obtained by M. de Saussure, from Cels of 

 Monte Rouge, under the name of Galactodendron nova species. It flowered 

 in Nov. 1839, and, having been examined by M. de Candolle the younger, was 

 found to be a i'^icus, and named after the gentleman with whom it flowered. 

 It is nearly allied to i^icus coriacea,. a native of the East Indies, introduced 

 to Britain in the year ] 772, and figured in Hooker's Exotic Flora. 



Huitieme Notice sur Ics Plantes Rares cultivees dans le Jardin de Geneve. Par 

 M. Aug. Pyr. et Alphonse de Candolle, Professeurs a 1' Academic, et Dii-ec- 

 teurs du Jardin. 



The plants enumerated are all in British gardens ; and Acrotriche depressa 

 R. Br., Maxillaria Deppei Lindl., and Epidendron Candolle?, are figured in 

 this notice. 



A Catalogue of the Plants growing in Bombay and its Vicinity ; spontaneous, cul- 

 vated, or introduced, as far as they have been ascertained. By John Graham. 

 Published under the auspices, and for the use of the Agri-Horticultural 

 Society of Western India. 8vo, pp. 254. Bombay, 1839. 



This Catalogue was presented to the Agri-PIorticultural Society of Western 

 India, by John Graham, Esq. ; it is not complete, but it will be continued 

 by Mr. Nimmo, the friend of Mr. Graham. The arrangement is that of De 

 Candolle, and it includes 169 orders, commencing with i^anunculaceae and 

 ending with T^ungi As a tribute to the memory of Mr. Graham, we copy 

 the following notice, 



" Mr. Graham, a native of Dumfriesshire, arrived in India in 1828, under 

 the patronage of the late Sir John Malcolm, who was at that time Governor 

 ofthis Presidency. He was honoured with the friendship and esteem of that 

 great and good man, and lived in his family until he was nominated by him to 

 the appointment of Deputy Postmaster-General, which he held up to the 

 period of his death.. He possessed a combination of qualities which pecu- 

 liarly fitted him for the duties of his office. The natural kindness of his dis- 

 position led him to be courteous and obliging to every one who had business 

 to transact with him, and to be ever ready and willing to investigate every 

 complaint, and to rectify any errors that might have been committed by his 

 subordinates ; while, at the same time, no unreasonable applications or ground- 

 less complaint disturbed the equanimity of his temper : nor did he serve the 

 government v/ith less zeal and diligence than he served the public. 



" The performance of his arduous duties left him little leisure for the prose- 

 cution of his favourite pursuit : but the few and brief opportunities which 

 were afforded him were eagerly laid hold of and improved ; and it should be 

 added, that one of the objects he was desirous to effect, while superintendant 

 of the Society's garden, shortly after its establishment, was, to store it with 

 an extensive assortment of rare wild, as well as useful, Indian plants, chiefly 

 collected by himself. 



" His private virtues will be long held in affectionate remembrance by his sor- 

 rowing friends. There were a gentleness and modesty of manner, a simplicity 

 and ingenuousness of disposition, an humble-mindedness, and a total freedom 

 from guile and self-seeking, which engaged the attachment and esteem of every 

 one to whom he was known. His whole character and conduct were habi- 

 tually regulated by a deep sense of his own moral imperfection, and by an 

 humble endeavour to act in all things in conformity with the Divine Will. 



" Mr. Graham expired at Khandalla, the favourite scene of his botanical 

 researches, on the 28th of May, 1839, at the age of 34, after only a few days' 

 illness. The intelligence of his death was received at every station within 



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