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would never pay more for anything than what he considered its 
true value, and he never gave to any object as to which he was not 
perfectly satisfied. Few men of equal wealth can ever have taken 
as much pains to dispose of it rightfully, and the extent of his 
private charities will never be known. Plain-spoken, he was yet 
considerate for the feelings of others, and would interest himself in 
their behalf as completely as in his own affairs. So punctual was 
et in keeping engagements that at a meeting at which he chanced 
o be two minutes late it was concluded that he had been altogether 
proventa from attending.”’ 
A —— he may not have had any wide knowledge of 
scnstiniorlit forms; but with cirri modesty he submitted 
all the heuvtades to which his acute powers of observation led him 
to the judgment of his friends, Mr. Sica Mr. Forster, and 
Professor hee a 
For much that i am here able to say of him I am indebted to 
ae Riendo, Joshua Clarke, Esq., J.P., F.L.8., R. M. Christy, Ksq., 
R : ewbould ; but interested as I am in the 
isso flora, it gives me ie ch pleasure in being able to add my 
mite of admiration for one who must undoubtedly take high rank ~ 
among the pioneers of the eh Br critical study of British plants. 
NEW CHINESE CYRTANDREZ.. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., F.L.8. Memb. R. Soc. Ratisbon, &e. 
Wuen, in 1861, Mr. Bentham published the ‘Flora Hong- 
kongensis,’ the Gesneracea,—all belonging to the tribe Cyrtandrea,— 
known from the vast empire of China, were but three in number ; 
Midgets acuminata Wall., Chir ita sinensis Lindl., both from 
 tragiin and Bea Swinhoti, a Formosan “ners and 
orth Chinese plant with the Rahn species wat indeed, they 
are outwardly indistinguishable) ; but he only added one to t 
Chinese list, Isanthera discolor, gathered by Oldham in Formosa. 
ww ese Se. ome me vy. 230. 
Journ. iii, 85. 
1 ee Diag: non St. Pétersb, ix. 368. 
