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inclined to consider it an J/ex, with which the structure of the leaves 
but I should call them 3-spermous ; unfortunately the contents are all 
i he ‘‘ disk ”’ under the 
mnace ) 
with which the plant can be compared, viz., Rhamnus and Scutia, the 
former containing more temperate forms, the latter differing greatly in 
st drawin these remarks I have come upon an 
Alphitonia from the Moluccas, cultivated in the Buitenzorg Garden in 
Java, named <Alphitonia incana, Teysm. et Binnen 
ri 
en. 
There is an Alphitonia Moluceana, T. et B., and I suspect the authors 
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description and excellent MS. figures has clearly shown me _ that 
hamnus incanus, Roxb. FI. Ind. I., 603, and Alph. incana, T. et B., 
are one and the same plant.—S. Kurz. 
Catamintia syLvatica, Bromf., ux Devon —Lately, whilst turningover 
ged plants, twospeci f Calamintha gathered by myself 
at Torquay in 1864 attracted my attention, and on handing the plants 
to my friend the Rev. W. W. Newbould, he immediately recognised 
them as Calamintha sylvatica, Bromfield. In Eng. Bot. Sup., pl. 2897, 
a good figure of the plant is given, and Dr. Bromfield writes that 
mm ‘ : 
tical with the present; and as far as can be judged of from the single 
and not very good specimen seen by us, we are disposed to coincide 
with that gentleman and our kind friend Mr. Borrer in thinking them 
the same.” TI have looked for this specimen in Mr. Woods’ Herb, 
undoub cendens, Jord. (C. menthifolia, Syme Eng. Bot., ed. iii ) 
C. sylvatica has not hitherto been recorded from any other station 
besides the Isle of Wight, and its occurrenc inland a 
e on the m t 
Torquay leads one to expect its existence elsewhere in the South and 
Mrppiesex Prants.—By the canal side, leaving West Drayton 
Station, in the direction of Uxbridge, I observed Smyrnium Olusatrum 
in the hedge of the towing-path, near, however, to a farmyard. ‘This 
wiiaye a eet ile from the station; a little nearer Cae 
wars, ©. pseudo- Cyperus, and C. paniculata erew by the margin 0 
the stream. (Enanthe Jtuviatilis, Mphisgsti Tes pee and Boul: 
culus circinatus are fairly abundant in the ¢ . In a brickfield 
between West yton on the London side and Hayes Station, I 
nme must not establish 
