NEW PUBLICATIONS. 119 
Reckoning the rainfall in consecutive ten-day periods, the driest is from 
" 22nd to 31st, the wettest from October 18th to 27th. A diagram 
s given representing the annual march of the fall of P and it is 
Sefakoy to find that this in all main characters agrees the results 
obtained from fifty-five et ' observations at peni d $ed the fall is, 
however, somewhat greate H.T, 
The Fairfield Orchids : a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species and Varie- 
ties grown by James Brooke and Oo., Fairfield Nurseries, Manchester. 
London. 1872. 28. 
Though this is a trade catalogue, and does not pretend to any scien- 
tific position, it possesses some novel features, so good and so well 
carried out, as to merit a few words of commendation. 
The genera and species are arranged alphabetically, and under each we 
find a short t description in plain language,-—localities, references to figures, 
and indication for culture. Prefixed to the catalogue are chapters on the 
i ir str e best 
racy not Mol found in popular writings. The most remarkable feature 
of t a glossary, which is headed “significations of the names 
applied to Orchids,” and which contains, in a small compass, a great 
amount of info ee difficult to obtain elsewhere, especially about 
collectors and grov of Orchids. An idea of this glossary is best 
obtained from an d a 
“ Fanda.— According to Sir William Jones Lasten m iv.302- __ 
313) Vanda in the Sauscrit language denotes the consecrated Mistletoe 
of the Oak (the Druidieal history of the eee in our own cap nd being no 
more than the western phrase of something more ancient), while the oak 
itself is andaca. From the Mistletoe the name was extended to para- 
sites and epi iphytes in general, but always with an addition, Bacula- 
vavda denoting the Lor anthus, and Amaravanda, a tree-Orchid, the latter 
term à corresponding with the Malayan Angrec " (whence the genus An- 
græcum). 
The author of this book is Mr. Leo Grindon, who is to be congratu- 
lated on transfor ming a mere catalogue into a really useful little manual. 
Materia Medica Papers. 
Le 
artius. 
The history of Ps acrid gum is very interesting. —.E. Canariensis, L., 
