326 Scientific Intelligence. 
a noted that in Smilax, always diccious, i with dull- 
colored perianth, the pollen is ’papillose as in most en tomophilou 
flowers; but that AAipogonum, the only hermaphrodite genus, 
a a smoothish pollen, more like that transportable 
have odorous blossoms, some aeeman A some the reverse. 
DeCandolle asks whether in our Coprosmanthus (the name of 
which indicates the ill odor) this is common se ie sexes and the 
same in both. Can any of our readers speak to this? An expo- 
sition of the geographical distribution of the order, and of what 
is known of it in a fossil state, is followed by a statement that all 
the four natural sections of Smilax and the two other genera— 
a comprised between the north of New Holland, the Figi 
Islands, the Sandwich Islands, and Japan; that India has four of 
these six types, New Holland three, North America two, a 
E e and Africa one; South America only one, but is rich in 
species. The s eculative inference i is, that, anterior to the eocene 
formations of Europe, the ancestors of the family occupied a con- 
tinent situated in the region above indicated, of which the most 
n 
to | its aati The sole Californian Smilax is pay ts as a 
variety, to S. rotundifolia, but is nearer S. hispida, although 
distinct from both. 
2. The Flora of British India, by Sir J. D. Hooxsr, KOS S.L, 
President R. S., etc., assisted by various botanists, makes fair 
progress. Part %, the second part of the second volume (pp. 241 
—496) is before us, ‘undated. In it the Leguminose by Baker are 
finished, a Kosacee elaborated by Dr. Hooker — - 
orr. & a , Flora. ‘Briobtrya is kept up as a 
ented: as are Dabnicns! 8 Docynia and Pourthice a 
3. Blithendiagramme [| Flower-diagrams] ¢ sindteiiel und erldu- 
raise — oo _ Ww. aa pes park Univ. Kiel.—Th 
ar, 
the botanical chai vacated ge the of Bra It Seals with 
the Apetalous and Choripetalous ‘Pak; pesabanal Dicotyledons, 
* We take a fancy to this name Sympetale; but Gamopetale is older and in 
common use. 
