CONTENTS. 



I. Observations on the Genera of European Grasses. 5?/ Joseph Woods, Esq., 



F.L.S page I 



II. On the Ooulum of Santaluin album. By William Griffith, Esq., 



Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service. Communicated by 

 Richard Horsman Solly, Esq., F.R.S. 8f L.S. 59 



III. Notes on the Development of the Ovula of Loranthus and Viscuin, and on 



the Mode of Parasitism of these two Genera. By William Griffith, 

 Esq., Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service. Communicated 

 by R.H.SoLLy, Esq., F.R.S. i^ L.S. 71 



IV. Descriptions of those species of Polygonxim and Fagopyrum which are 



contained in the Indian Herbariutn of J. Forbes Royle, Esq., F.L.S. , 

 8^c., late Superintendant of the H.E.I. C. Botanical Garden at Saharun- 

 pore, and now Professor of Materia Medica in King's College, London. 

 By Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Sgc. . . 93 



V. Notice of certain Australian Quadrupeds, belonging to the Order Rodentia. 



By W. Ogilby, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., ^c 121 



VI. On the Family Fulgoridae, with a Monograph of the Genus Fulgora of 



Linnceus. By John O.Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., Sjc 133 



VII. On the Structure and Affinities of Arachis and Voandzeia. By George 



Bentham, Esq., F.L.S 155 



VIII. Descriptions of two new Genera of the Natural Family of Plants called 

 Coniferse. By David Don, Esq., Libr. L.S., Prof Bot. King's Col- 

 lege, London. 16.3 



IX. Descriptions, ^c. of the Insects collected by Captain P. P. King, R.N., 



F.R.S. 8^ L.S., in the Survey of the Straits of Magellan. By John Curtis, 

 Esq., F.L.S., i^c 181 



