P>0 NOTICES OF ROOKS AND MEMOIRS 



the large size of the book giving full scope to the artist ; there is 

 also a handsome frontispiece. The most remarkable species 



delineated is Montrichardia linifera, to which two plates are 



devoted; it is an aquatic or marsh plant of singular appearance, 

 having very stout, erect, tapering stems, 6-12 feet high, with 

 large, distant, longpefcioled, sagittate leaves; the spathes are 

 large and cymbiform, yellowish inside, green without ; the 

 yellowish spadix resembles that of Philodendron ; the ovaries are 

 connate, and when ripe are consolidated into a large oblong dark 

 greenish fruit. The genus Montrichardia is one that is poorly 

 represented in herbaria, and not too well known, so that these 

 figures are really a welcome addition to our knowledge of it. The 

 figure of an inflorescence (most probably monstrous ) of Philodendron 

 brerilaminatum is also very interesting, reminding one forcibly of 

 the genus Diefenbachia, the ovaries being scattered and 2-4-lobed, 

 and are surrounded by some clavate staminodia. 



N. E. Brown. 



Other New Books.— M. Nencki, ' Contributions to the Biology 

 of the liacteriacea' (2 tab.), Leipzig, 1880.— Ferd. von Mueller, 



'Eucalyptographia' (Decades 3 & 4), Melbourne; London (Trubner), 

 5s. each.— D. & A. N. M< Alpine, 'Biological Atlas' (24 tab.). 

 London, W. & A. K. Johnston, 1880, 75. 6d.— Hanstein, 'Das 

 Protoplasma ' (Heidelberg, Winter, 1880).— N. J. C. Muller, 

 ' Handbuch der Botanik,' vol. i., pt. i. ('Anatomie und Physiologic') 

 (Heidelberg, Winter).— A. Minks, * Das Microgonidium ' (Basel, 

 George, 1879). — C. Luerssen, ■ Medicinisch-Pharmaceutische 

 Botanik' (Band n., pt. 4; Leipzig, Haessel, 1879).— T. F. Allen, 

 ' Charace© American©,' Part, ii., New York, Is. 6d. 





Articles in Journals. — December. 



JMn'$ BeUrage (Band III., Heft. i.)_ T. Hielscher, 'Anatomy 

 and Biology of Streptoearpm ' (3 tab.)— E. Beiuling, « Investigations 

 into origin of adventitious roots and leaf-buds on leaves of 

 In^o>"ui (2 tab.)— G. Schroeter, ' Life-history of several species 

 ot 'Kust (contd.)— O. Kirchner, 'Life-history of Yokox minor' 



^N— A. Wernich, P. Cohn, &c., 'Researches on Bacteria' 

 (contd.; 2 tab.) 



Finra.—L Celakovsky, 'On viridescent ovules in Hesperi* 



3 T\ n te 1 ?^^' A - Heninger, 'On Hybrids' (con- 

 cluded ).— 0. Bockeler, ' Cvperaceae of Tropical Africa '' (concluded) . 

 many new species.-W. Nylandcr, 'Note on the colour of Lichens' 

 —Id., 'Note on the hypotballus.' 



fnJ^^ /iTir £ W * C - Areschoug, 'On LeycmUria 

 formom. -0. Nordsteut . 'On Vwheria (2 tabs.)-!, K. Rosenvinge, 



