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The work will consist of forty Fasciculi, 
to appear monthly, each containing five 
plates and two or three sheets of Latin and 
French description; the former giving the 
botanical details, and the latter an abridged 
account of every plant, its history, use, and 
culture in Japan, and the mode by which 
it may be acclimatized in Europe. 
The second part of the work will be of 
similar size and style of printing with the 
t, and contain a complete enumeration 
of all the plants collected in Japan by M. 
Siebold, with detailed descriptions of the 
new and doubtful species, and such plates 
as may be needful for their elucidation. 
Many rich herbaria, formed by skilful Ja- 
panese Botanists, in countries hitherto in- 
accessible to European Naturalists, and 
illustrated by many interesting observa- 
tions, together with M. Bürger's collections, 
will enrich this portion of the work." 
A new work upon Indian Botany, to be 
published in Amsterdam, is announced 
under the title of 
RUMPHIA, 
SIVE COMMENTATIONES BoTANIC#, IM- 
PRIMIS DE PLANTIS IN pig ORIENTALIS, 
TUM PENITUS INCOGNITIS, TUM QU, IN 
WALLICHII, ALIORUM RECENSENTUR, 
Auctore C. L. Blume, cognomine RuMPu10. 
PROSPECTUS. 
* At a period when late political events 
have disturbed the peace of nations in 
general, and specially endangered that of 
had commenced, at Brussels, the publica- 
tion of his great and important work, enti- 
tled Flora Jave. The unexpected dis- 
memberment of Holland and Belgium 
necessarily suspended this publication, in 
Which government took a considerable 
interest: but every thing has a limit; peace 
and confidence will assuredly return to our 
country : the doubts of diplomacy will 
shortly be ted, and we cannot hesi- 
tate to believe that the author, as well as 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
the editors, of the FroRA Java, will 
then speedily resume their labours at the 
point where they were obliged to suspend 
them, and fulfil to the numerous subscrib- 
ers those engagements which they must 
have ever considered as of inviolable obli- 
gation. We may state while on this subject, 
that not only all the manuscript is in the 
Publishers’ hands, but that measures have 
been arranged among them to ensure a 
free circulation for those fasciculi which 
will terminate the work. 
«Tt had entered into M. Blume's projects 
to extend his publications beyond the 
Flora of the Island of Java, and to give, 
successively, the results of his laborious 
investigations in the immense Indian Ar- 
chipelago; adding to his special attention 
to that island, which he had longest in- 
habited, all the discoveries which he has 
been enabled to make, all the facts which 
e has collected relative to the botany, 
statistics, and vegetable physiology of 
many regions, the study of which is the 
more important as they are situated very 
remotely from our possessions, and have, 
hitherto, been only visited by very few 
Naturalists, under peculiar and highly fa- 
vored circumstances. Professor Blume has 
een in an advantageous position for scru- 
tinizing nature, during all seasons of the 
year, and for verifying, by numerous and 
exact experiments, the correctness of the 
observations made by others; so that we 
may expect to receive a satisfactory ac- 
count of all those subjects which he intends 
to discuss. Nothing of importance that is a 
contained in the valuable works of Rheede, | 
Rumphius, Roxburgh, and Wallich has | 
lume's notice; and his pro- 
POPSET E Ett 
the illustrious Botanists who have pre- 
ceded him in this career, and to fill up the 
deficiencies which the hitherto imperfect 
state of science had obliged those writers 
to make. : 
* [n order to give to the Phytology of 
India an air of similarity, which must ii in- 
crease its interest, Professor Hine int 
