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by the double series of bracteas, the infundibuliform corolla, 

 erect ovlues and fcetor of the plant) it accords with Serissa, 

 a spermacoceous genus, and to which this is probably 

 even more nearly related than to Lasianthus. When Mr. 

 Gardner and I first found it, we agreed, after a pretty atten- 

 tive examination, in placing it here, and I retain it, though 

 further acquaintance with the genus makes me doubt the 

 propriety of doing so. 



The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M's. Ships 

 'Erebus' and < Terror; in the years 1839—1843. By 

 Joseph Dalton Hooker, M. D., R. N., F.L.S., Parts 

 1 — 5, London, Reeve Brothers, 1844. Communicated 

 by Mr. Gardner. 



The expedition to which the author of the above work was 

 attached as Botanist, left England in the beginning of the 

 year 1839, for the purpose, as it is well known, of investiga- 

 ting the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism, and of pursuing 

 maritime geographical discovery in high southern latitudes. 

 Besides these leading objects, it was enjoined to the officers 

 that they should use every exertion to collect the different 

 objects of Natural History to be met with in the various 

 countries they were about to visit. After three distinct 

 cruises to the South Polar regions, from their more northern 

 winter quarters, the expedition reached England in the 

 autumn of 1843, with rich collections both in Zoology 

 and Botany. To assist in the publication of these, the 

 Lords Commissioners of the Treasury granted the liberal 

 sum of £1000 to each department. 



The number of specimens which Dr. Hooker brought 

 back with him is very great, and all in a beautiful state of 

 preservation — as we had an opportunity of witnessing shortly 

 after his return to England — notwithstanding the very limit- 

 ed accommodation and means which necessarily existed under 



