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Leaves of the lower ne close or slightly spaced, spreading, 
oblong, obtuse, 1-12th in. long, bright green, moderately firm in 
texture, the distinct midrib nearly central, the upp: sie oa 
and cordate at the base, and imbricated over the branch ; leaves of 
the lower plane a quarter as long, broad, ovate, pri i es 
short, square, 4 lin. diam.; bracts ovate, cuspidate, strongly keeled. 
. Cataracts of Jaru uma and Panuré, Upper Amazon, 
Spruce 2584! 2941! Trail 1487! A near ally of S. jungerman- 
nioides. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Tae Dare or Puuxener’s ‘ Payr OGRAPHIA, "—In my ‘Karly 
Kuropean Researches into the Flora of China,’ I have pointed out 
Journal for 1882 (p. 840), Mr. Jackson fdleois wales 5 ties the third 
volume of Plukenet': s iconographical work appeared in 1692. But 
this at any rate must be a mistake. Plukenet described Cunning- 
— 8 "ae in the ‘Amaltheum,’ which was issued in 1705, — 
each engraving in the ‘Phytographia’ is referred 
' ra ni vores no reference to the ‘ Phytogra phia’ is foanh 
in the ‘ Amaltheum,’ there can be no doubt that the sconingel eae 
work, the third shane at least, was brought out subsequently to 
1705.—KH. Brerscunemer. 
(I think that Dr. Bretschneider must be under some 
apprehension here; possibly caused bs the copy of Plakenet’s 8 
My used by him having all the plates bound up in one series. 
plate. shed by the age 
1696, followed by the ‘ Mantioes” in 1700, with plates 329 ‘8 , 850. 
rsa in 1705 the ‘ Amaltheum ’ came out, having plates 351 to 
