76 Scientific Intelligence. 
takes in only two tribes (Phyllanthece “4 Crotonew) of the vast 
order Euphorbiacee, by Dr. J. Miller, who most creditably elab- 
orated this family (Euphorbia ecoemal4 in the Prodromus 
have here 42 plates and letter-press up to p. 292; so that the order 
will fill a volume, the second part of which, it is said, will appear 
before the close of the current year. The Bra zilian —— of 
Phyllanthus amount to 71, of Croton to 275. . Ge 
6. A Monograph of Ebenacee, by Wak: Hiern, M. A. (Trans. 
Cambridge Phil. Society, vol. xii, part 1. Cambridge, Eng., 
1873, 4to.—The letter-press fills 300 ages; the illustrations are 
B aeceigiie rp *htge and mart is a lithographed “ plan exhibit- 
the affini of Ebena Mr. Hiern is very favorably 
on wn by reer or = ibnec beanies per one of them on the Batra- 
chum group of Ranunculus. He comes now to take a position 
ong the few British botanists of the day who will undertake to 
sinborate an exotic order; and he has chosen one which has much 
needed a monographer. In the notice of the collections consulted, 
the herbarium of “ Lehmann,” now belonging to Cambridge Uni- 
versity, is mentioned. That of the late Dr. Charles Lemann (to 
whose memory Bentham dedicated the genus Carlemannia) 18 
iwi the one intended. 
a brief account of the economical products of the order, 18 
npeelae of Diospyros, 2 of Maba, and one of Huclea are said to 
supply ebony; not to speak of other bani woods, such as box- 
wood and pear tree, which are artificially dyed black and used in 
commerce as ebony, nor of the ebony of the ancients, —- accord- 
ing to Bertoloni, was furnished by a Leguminosa, Fourteen spe- 
cies of Diospyros yield edible fruits. Much the best, no doube is 
that of the Japanese D,. —— stig it has been imme- 
morially cultivated; the next may r N. American persim- 
mon, which is said to be << fit to on aie it has suffered frost. 
It is ‘hardly omibis = Char; ee are reo for ee 
c D, 
are extr eee difficult to assign with certainty. For 
en very “Fall list of ‘the numbered collections, with names assigned 
to the numbers, ver author has earned hearty thanks. Only five 
estivation of the cor mat Not only are lists given of the species of 
each geographical r , but a complete chronological enumera- 
sD 
rt of the monograph, the Latin diagnoses and the English 
descriptions, and the displayed synonom y, &e., seems wholly ered- 
itable; but there is a surplus * ‘rinetuation in the diagnoses, each 
adjective ns isolated by a comma. The fossil species are 4 
escribed in an appendix, but the author disclaims capone 
for them 
7. Dodecatheon Meadia germinates after the fashion of Del 
phinium nudicaule, &c., according to Naudin (Jour. Soc, Hort, 
