58 Scientific Intelligence. 
HH. %. Medlicott; and on the Kurhurbari, Deoghur and Karan- 
pura Coalfields, by T. i. Hughes 
The Records of the Survey “which have appeared once in three 
months, contain many valuable papers on the Geology and pro- 
ductions of India, some of them illustrated by maps. 
5. Friderici Welwitschii Sertum Angolense. to, pp. 94, tab. 26. 
Part 1 of vol. xxvii of the Transactions of the Linnean ‘Society, 
1869.—The most remarkable pan of a truly extraordinary flora 
is that which commemorate s discoverer, the Welwitschia mita- 
and the excellent one are sg drawings by Fitch. Tipon 
some of the plates the aspect of the whole plant is delineated, 
e. £5 Feit, odes Lealit and Sesamothamnus Benguellensis 
which, with some most bizarre species of Vitis and _ wit 
Wenolischia itself make oP principal part of a queer pigmy- 
tumid arborescent grow in a region too arid tor ordinary 
vegetation. Another Sie Acanthosicy Yos lite is a Cucur- 
bitaceous shrub, spiny and nearly leafless, with somewhat the 
indigenous to a long stretch of tropical Africa ; 
informed that our Brasenia peltata, ater been found already — 
in Oregon, Japan, N. E. India and Australia, has been detected 
fe YP : 
pectedly found to have an African tokeeeuatie: in Brunnichia 
Africana, discovered at a cataract in a wooded district, less than 
multitudes of eee uel &e., eohot the long ay : 
season. The force of Linnzus’ remark, that there was always 
something new and strange coming from Africa, is not rey ae 
— 
mig Icones Plantarum. Third Series, vol. 1, part . 
Ja in 71.—This completes the first volume of the pa : 
Tcones hanticae, of which ten volumes (a thousand plates) es 
