62 New species of Rhizomys discovered in Nepal. 



of the last molar, added to the perfectly feline and 

 sheathed claws of this species, with other lesser diversities 

 all fully participated by a second species, or our Pardicolor, 

 justify the separation of the two sub-generically. So I 

 think Rasse, et Indica, are reasonably removed from the 

 Civets proper by myself, as the form connecting the Civets 

 proper with the Genets, just as Prionodon connects them 

 with the Cats, and Cynictis with the Mongooses. By the 

 way, the above remarks show that my proposed name of 

 Undulatus for a species or variety of true Civet of Nepal, 

 which can no more be confounded with Gray's Undulatus 

 than with the Civet or Zibeth of the English Regne 

 Animal, is preoccupied. I beg to propose Civettoides instead. 

 I have elsewhere shown that Gray's observations on the 

 odoriferous apparatus and on the feet of these animals 

 are liable to question. 



B. H. Hodgson. 



Flora of central France; or a Description of the Plants 

 which are the spontaneous inhabitants of the central re- 

 gion of France, and of those which are generally culti- 

 vated there, fyc. By A. Boreau, Professor of Botany, 

 Director of the Botanical Garden of Angers.* (2 vol. in 

 8vo. Paris, 1840.) 



We have been aware for sometime that the territorial 

 division of France into provinces or departments has little 

 relation with its botanical geography. Indeed the consi- 

 derable number of partial Flora which have appeared in 

 the course of the last century, and since the commencement 

 of the present, although furnishing materials for a general 

 French Flora, in a scientific point of view they are not so 

 interesting, considering the arbitrary and restricted limits of 



* From the Annates des Sciences Naturells, April 1840, communicated to 

 the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, by Joseph M'Clelland, M. D. 



