Scientific Intelligence. 239 
should “Heige that the anthers in Smilaw are uated but dilocel- 
late. The diagnosis of Roxburghiacee in the conspectus distin- 
cet the pre i from Australian Talianeds only, and by an over- 
sight the second genus of the order is said ot ie —— to 
co ey area's it was founded on a North Am n plant. a 
Flora of Manali and the Seychelles: a ne son ar of ‘the 
Eiomenis Plants and Ferns of those et ge By J. G. Baxerr, 
., etc. London: Reeve 0. 1877. 557 pp.—Another of 
the British Colonial Floras, complete in one volume. Contains 
112 orders, not a few of which are represented mainly by natural- 
ized plants, 440 genera, and 1058 indigenous species. Thanks to 
sugar-culture and bad management, “the forests of Mauritius, 
“which at the time when it was named by the Dutch, in 1598, 
covered it to the water’s edge, have baie by degrees abet dow n, till 
they are now almost entirely destroyed..... From 467 tons 
in 1812, the amount of sugar exported increased till it: reached a 
maximum in 1860, so that it was calculated at that time that this 
island, with an area of 700 square <a Spare? —— t a tenth 
le world. 
of the exported sugar of the whole wor The — is 
that the indigenous flora of the inland: as we on rm 10W, iS @ 
mere wreck of what it was 100 — ago, the interest- 
ing endemic trees and ve either been entirely 
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exterminated or become very rare, and shat a crowd of. intro- 
duced trees, shrubs, and weeds have replaced the original vegeta- 
tion toa greater extent than in any other part of the world, except 
St. Helena.” The number of introduced plants which have ‘become 
established on the island is estimated at 269; that of indigenous 
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the Siestbachiins Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. Published by 
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