716 SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS TO VARIOUS WORKS, 



umbels of flowers, which are very numerous in each umbel, 

 and ovate-lanceolate leaves : Mr. Brown has named this 

 Hoya nicobarica." Traill, Accounts and Descriptions of 

 several plants belonging to the genus Hoya, &c., in the 

 ' Transactions of the Horticultural Society,^ vol. vii, London, 

 1830. 



Mayna, Baddi. 



" Ihre stellung im Natiirlichen System betreflfend, reiht 

 sich unsere Pflanze unstreitig zunachst an die Flacour- 

 tianece und Bixinece. Wir haben sie vorlaufig mit Frage- 

 zeichen zu ersterer Familie in die Nahe von Hydnocarpus 

 gestellt, miissen aber dabei einer mundlichen J^usserung 

 R. Brown's gedenken, gemass welcher sie mit Hydnocarpus 

 und Gynocardia, Roxb., eine eigene Familie bilden diirfte, 

 deren Aufstellung unser unsterblicher* meister hoffentlich 

 spater selbst iibernehmen wird. Zuccarini in Fasciculus 

 Secundus Plantarmn Minus Cognitarum, in Abhandlungen 

 der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie, band ii, p. 368 

 (1837). 



Prof. Buckland acknowledges assistance from Mr. Brown, 

 in determining the nature of the fossils, for which he states 

 that, at Mr. Brown's suggestion, he had estabhshed a new 

 family with the designation Cycadoidece. Transactions of 

 Geological Society of London, 2nd series, vol. ii, p. 395. 

 [Bead June 6if/^, 1828.) 



In a note following the Preface to Dr. Buckland's 

 ' Bridgewater Treatise,' 2 vols., 8vo, 1836, the author 

 says — 



" The scientific reader will feel that much additional 

 value has been added to the present work — from the 

 botanical part having been submitted to Mr. Robert 

 Brown." 



/ It is probable that most of the observations on the struc- 

 ture of CycadecB and Cycadeous fossils, both in this work 

 and in Prof. Buckland's Paper in the ' Geological Transac- 

 tions,' were contributed by Mr. Brown ; but the following 

 are the only particulars for which he is specifically quoted : 



