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the most of his friends. This edition is illustrated by good wood engrav- 
ings of many of the plants described, in great part from original draw- 
ings from the skillful pencil of Mr. Anthony Hochstein. A. 
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plants as fo 
general affinity with Cunoniacee and with Lythracee,” as Brown ong 
ago suggested. Mr. Bentham distinguishes nine genera, one of which is 
new, and about twenty-one species. One of the most interesting of these 
is a new Crossostylis, detected (in fruit only) by Prof. Harvey in the 
Feejee Islands, having fewer carpels in its gynzecium than orster’s C. 
biflora, for the elucidation of which we are indebted to the South Pacific 
Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes. Mr. Bentham also contrib- 
utes a 
Monograph of the Eucalypti of Tropical Australia, with an arrange- 
ment, for the use of Colonists, according to the Structure of the Bark; 
Dr. Ferdinand Miller, Government Botanist, pe a 
the region which he had assisted to explore in Gregory’s expedition. The 
1 an esculent—a h was : 
be identical with the Tuckahoe or Indian-bread of the Atlantic 
ni : 
Cocos of Fries); thus adding another to the long list of species peculiar 
or nearly so to China or Japan and to the eastern side of North America. 
