Botany. 283 
Eighthly, the Araceae, by Dr. Schott, the renowned monographer of 
the order. A sheet or two of the first part ends the No. 4 of these in- 
teresting Annales. A. G. 
8. Martius, Flora Brasiliensis: fasc. 33-35. July, 1863.—These fas- 
hey here 
occupy almost 250 pages of letter-press, illustrated by 26 plates. Brazil 
species appear to have been faithfully elaborated by Keernicke, who has 
also furnished the excellent analyses which enhance the value of the nu- 
co 
Gnetum and 4 of Ephedra. The gymnospermous view Is adopted, Ephe- 
Merely two species of ia, both of which are figured. : 
The eg by Sugita author, as to the Brazilian flora, include 
only one Araucaria and two species’of Podocarpus, all three most elabo- 
rately illustrated by figures, as also is Cupressus Lusitania, an oriental 
/ypress, planted in Brazil.. The interest of the article lies in a conspectus 
an arrangement of the order, and in an Ezcursus M on 
the structure of i 
scale obsolete. 
