88 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
plates published was seven hundred. We need therefore not look 
further at what date each number came out, as it is certain that 
Vahea and all the names anterior to plate 701 are older than those 
rek, he will likely publish them in the ‘ — de la 
soaiees ‘Botani anique de France.” It remains still to be noted that 
nearly forty ee ago Alphonse de Candolle pagenied already 
prove eras it would be best to adhere 33 the ae Vahea, 
because’ Aubiet in the same work has among Composite a genus 
Pacourina, vol. ii., 800, t. 8316 (1775), which the elder De Candolle 
and lately also Bentham and Hooker have maintained. 
{In the last number (the 94th) of his ‘ Fragmenta,’ Baron von 
nein points out that the well-known Sapotaceous genus Bassa 
not the rightful possessor of that name. He says: ‘‘ Bassia 
generice sAabiliabater ab Allioni in Mélanges de ee et de 
athématique pour les années 1762-1755, Turin, iii. vs 
f. 2 (1766) sub titulo: Stirpium aliquot descriptiones cum die uoru 
rum constitutione. Tali do igitur forest: inte 
b 
inceptionem.—Bassie inter Sapoteas synchrona est Minne (Koenig 
in Linn. Mantiss. abe: 563, anno 1771, nomen quoque hodie sine 
scrupulo omnia & Although some temporary inconvenience 
y result, it appears to us that the a s view is the only one 
which is logicalle tenable.—Eb. Journ. 
Notices of Books. 
Flora of British India. By Sir J. D. Hooxer, C.B., K.S.I. Part ix. 
| Vacciniacee—Apocynacee'. London: L. iat & Co. [Dec. 
E steady progress of this very cite Ang soe eg to our 
bobedial floras is a matter for congratulation. Sir Joseph Hooker 
has been fortunate in securing the active co- operation of, so soar 
and steady a worker as Mr. C. B. Clarke, who is responsible for 
the greater portion of the part now before us, rss orders Sapotacee, 
Ebenacee,—which we had expected Mr. W. P. ‘Hiern would have un- 
dertaken,— Myrsinee and Styr ~ having fallen to oaths share, while 
Sir Joseph Hooker has elaborated the Primulacee and Apocynee. 
would be impossible for snes possessed of less knowledge 
than the illustrious botanists named to criticise ~ execution of 
the work from the botanical standpoint; but there are one or two 
minor, though not unimportant, matters which insta a word or 
two of comment. 
