specimens, but can perceive no differ- 
ence of any consequence between the 
character given by him and that by Mr. 
Arnott and myself: Dr. Wallich, however, 
seems to think differently. I hope that 
the accompanying figure will enable some 
one who possesses the Java plant, to as- 
certain positively whether it be ours, and 
if distinct, to point out the difference. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Capsule. 3. Capsule laid open. 
1. 3.—magnified. 
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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
( Continued from p. 86. ) 
Is the Botanical Journal, p. 179, we com- 
municated the information, that Mr. Schom- 
burgk, an excellent Botanist, who had been 
long resident in the West Indies, was about 
to explore the banks of the Orinoco, under 
the patronage of the Royal Geographical 
Society of London. Intelligence has just 
been received from him, bearing date 
Georgetown, Demerara, Aug. 7, 1835, at 
which place he had arrived only two days 
previously, and where he was engaged in 
making preparations for this important ex- 
pedition. The rainy season, however, upon 
the coast, had been of unusual length this 
year, sothat he did not deem it advisable 
to penetrate into the interior before the 
. commencement of September. His Excel- 
. — lency the Governor, Sir J. C. Smyth, had 
VM 
taken a lively interest in the expedition, 
. and there was a prospect of Mr. Schom- 
burgk's having a scientific companion, who 
had volunteered to join the party. 
We hear, with much pleasure, that Dr. 
* Graham, of Edinburgh, while on a botan- 
. Ming excursion in Galloway, accompanied 
y some of his students, discovered the 
Ononis reclinata in considerable abund- 
.  &nce. This is a most valuable addition to 
the British Flora 
The rare and remarkable form of Pedi- 
cularis sylvatica, having a regular corolla, 
With five divisions and Jive spreading sta- 
mens, has lately been found by Miss Bage, 
of Bangor, near the village of Hanwood, 
miles from Shrewsbury. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
119 
POEPPIG AND ENDLICHER’S PLANTS OF 
SOUTH AMERICA. 
The first Decade of Poeppig and Endli- 
cher’s Nova Genera ac Species Plantarum 
quas in Regno Chilensi Peruviano et in 
terra Amazonica annis 1827 ad 1832 le- 
git Eduardus Poeppig, has just reached 
us; and as far as can be judged from the 
first Fasciculus, it promises to be a most 
valuable addition to our botanical libraries. 
The size is folio; the plates are executed 
in outline with the greatest care, and the 
descriptions are full and satisfactory. The 
subjects of the present number are highly 
interesting, particularly those of the three 
first plates, which are admirably illustrative 
of the curious genus JMisodendron of 
Banks's MSS., belonging to the Nat. Ord. 
Loranthee, and exclusively inhabiting the 
colder extra-tropical parts of South Ame- 
rica. The species figured and described 
are, M. lineare, DC., M. oblongifolium, 
D C., and M. imbricatum, Poep. and Endl. 
The fourth to the seventh plates are devoted 
to as many species of Ourista of Commer- 
son; O. Magellanica, Juss., O. coccinea, 
Pers., ( Dichroma, Cav.), O. pallens, Poep. 
and Endl., O. alpina, Poep. and Endl., O. 
microphylla, Poep. and Endl., and a sixth 
species is described, O. polyantha, The 
eighth plate is Sphyrospermum buxifolium, 
Poep. and Endl., of the Peruvian Andes, 
a new genus of Vacciniee ; the ninth, Zhi- 
baudia secundiflora, and the tenth, Cera- 
tostemma biflorum, Poep. and Endl. 
Dr. Poeppig, in another place (Froriep’s 
Notizen), gives the following brief but 
animated picture of the Natural History of 
Chili, a country where he has collected so 
many of the interesting plants which will 
occupy the pages of the “ Nova Genera,” 
e 
« Chili is in reality neither that terres- 
trial Paradise which Molina, in his exces- 
sive patriotism, has described it to be, nor 
on the other hand, is it such an arid and 
desolate mountain-region, as is pictured by 
Mino. Whoever is only acquainted with - 
the northern part of Chili, must refrain from 
passing any judgment, because the environs —— 
