212 
Hym guetespenimn dentatum, Benth. 
Wall. Cat. n. 3893. 
Taong Dong, a mountain near i 
Has. 
Ava, Wallich. fons 
. G. aspera {Okar et Schlecht. Lin- 
nea, 3. 22.), foliis subsessilibus oblongo- 
lanceolatis basi truncato-cordatis cauleque 
hispidis asperrimis, calycis dentibus latis 
acutis bracteisque hispidis. 
Has. Brazil, from Bahia to the South- 
ern Provinces. (v. s. 
. G. capensis (Benth. Seroph. Ind. 50.), 
foliis subsessilibus ovato-cordatis, inferi- 
vibusque, dentibus calycinis lanceolatis 
acutissimis bracteisque subnudis glabris. 
Rhinanthus scaber, Thunb. Prod. FL 
Cap. 98. ? 
Bartsia scabra, Spreng. Syst. 9. 775. ? 
Gerardia sessiliflora, Vahl, Symb. 2. 79. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, 
Herb. Hooker. (v. s. sp.) 
There. is in Dr. Mots herbarium, a 
appears to be a fourth species 
of Gsm with the leaves of G. capen- 
sis, but h 
perfect to be certain as to the genus. 
IX.? PHTHEIROSPERMUM. Bunge. 
Calyx campanulatus 5- fidus. Corolla 
campanulato-ringens, labio superiore pla- 
no bifido, lobis replicatis, inferiore paullo 
longiore trifido, fauce hiante. Stamina di- 
lynama rectiuscul a. Anthere libere locu- 
P FARE (unes in Fisch. et 
: bn er, l. c.). Herba annua vel biennis, ha- 
~ bitu, foliis, calyce et capsula. Pedicularis 
| palustri haud absimilis, sed corolla fere 
E — Mimuli, sordide rosea, fauce lineis 2 flavi- 
.. dis notata. (Fisch. et Meyer. 
TUN In China "p Bunge. 
M. DURIEU'S BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS 
perilous excursion. 
master of our frail bark, having replied 
X. CENTRANTHERA. Br. 
The whole of the four species com 
n 
general Synopsis of East Indian Scrophu-. 
lariaceæ, it would be superfluous to tran- 
scribe them on this occasion. 
ACCOUNT OF M. DURIEU’S BO- 
TANICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE 
MOUNTAINS OF ASTURIAS. 
(Communicated by P. B. Webb, Esq.) 
M. Durieu, a distinguished French offi- 
cer, on half-pay, who had visited many of | 
the Southern Provinces of Spain, du 
and several botanical friends, suggested to 
him the idea of forming a sufficient num- - 
ber of collections, to cover a part of his - 
expenses, The following letters, addressed 3 
Gijon, May 22. 1825. 
Sir,—I arrived here only on the 18th, 
after encountering such difficulties and ob- 
stacles, as, I really believe, would have 
- tander, where I was in hopes of receiving 
letters. I will not lose time in recounting 
the numberless difficulties that I met 
owing to the civil war now raging in Spain; 
suffice it to say, that I was almost an actor 
a most unwilling one, so far as the flight 
insolently to a Spanish cruizer, we nar- 
rowly escaped being run down by h 
! By mistake, in our last number, this ge 
** Durieux.” 
name was written 3i 
