142 Scientific Intelligence. 
another was cultivated by M. Giraudeau, in the valley of Mont- 
morency. There the plant soon assumed a magnificent develop- 
ment. It has already produced several times large inflorescences 
more than six feet in height, tapering to a point, and covered 
doubled in size by a green grandular disk, The leaves are of 
large size, attaining a length of five feet ; they have a semi-orbicu- 
lar ght-green in r, and covered with 
limb deeply five-lobed, li col 
a fine pubescence. In all these characters they only approach one 
oot. ere Was no reason to suppose that it would be 
otherwise, or that any difficulty will be experienced in propagat- 
duces. The aerial portion, conical in form, and thick as ones 
drug, and which, after the Thibetian 
> 
rays, the active and coloring principle: but these organs are 
scarcely developed, and are represented by the slender cylindrical 
pieces sometimes sent to Europe; frequently they are speedily 
a special structure, which will be, without doubt, a practical and 
ready means of recognizing and distinguishing the products of 
inferior quality with which the world is inundated.* 
7. Boissier, Flora Orientalis, Vol. I. Geneve et Basilix, 1872, 
pp. 1159, 8vo.—The first volume was published in 1867. In 4 
review of it at the time in this Journal, an account of the plan, 
* Translated ftom the Report in the ‘ Revue Scientifique’ of Sept., 1872, p- 279 
of the Meeting of the Association Francaise, at Bordeaux.—w. T. T. D. 
