124 Scientific Intelligence. 
III, BOTANY. 
. Flora Hongkongensis: a Description of the Flowering Planis and 
Pine of the Island of Hongkong ; by Gzorce Bentuanm, V.P.LS. With 
a Map of the Island. Published under the Authority of Her Majesty 8 
Fides of State for the Colonies. London: Lovell Reeve. 1861. pp. 
2. 8vo.—We have already noticed Harvey and Sonder’s Cape Flora, 
and Grisebach’s Flora of the British West Indies, each of which have 
completed a first volume. The present work is the third of es series - ; 
British Colonial Floras, upon a new and simple plan, compact in for 
written in sh throughout, authorized and supported by the ‘British 
Government. The Colonial department pays a very moderate recompense 
to the authors, and turns the work over to a publisher upon such terms 
as 
colonists. This is a much wiser as well as vastly more oa plan 
the arts of peace, we might profitably roe The present work is by a _ 
master-hand ; for Mr. Bentham is one of the most experienced, industri- 
ous, and judicious of systematic botanists. The island of Hongkong has 
an area of scarcely thirty square miles, its general aspect is bleak and 
barren; yet it has already 'y ielded about a thousand phanogamous 
cies. “At a first glance,” as the ator Ss “ one is <gtes with 
the large proportion of arborescent and shrubby species, on a rocky m 
where the woods are limited to a few ravines, or short narrow valleys half 
tting ‘acknowle gment is given for the pale contribution to 
this Flora furnished by the botanical collection (of above 500 species) 
made by ee Wright, as botanist of the U. 8. North Pacific Explor- 
ing Expedition under Captains Ringgold and Rodgers, duplicates of 
which were abliginaly and most properly furnished by direction of the 
Commander and the ees hints ee a of the Smithsonian persone 
In aid of the colonial botanists or amateurs who may use this 
