116 Collections, 



Dr. Oxley has been long engaged in collecting the plants 

 of the Straits, and has we believe in his possession, a collec- 

 tion of 1000 or 1200 species. 



From the Rev. Mr. White, Chaplain of Singapore, an 

 indefatigable collector, a few plants collected by him in 

 Terra Australis, and a dried specimen (of a branch) of 

 the tree producing that curious sort of Caoutchouc known by 

 the name of Gutta Percha. This specimen enables us to 

 refer the plant to Sapoteae, which explains the statement of 

 its fruit being edible. It has all the characters of a Chryso- 

 phyllum. Mr. White has been also so obliging as to trans- 

 mit living plants of this, and also of the true Camphor tree, 

 the arrival of which is expected shortly. 



From Lieut. Munro, H. M. 39th Foot, who is already dis- 

 tinguished by his investigations of the Flora of the Penin- 

 sula of India, a small collection containing a Lycium from 

 between Kurnal and Ferozepore, an Erodium from the 

 Chumbul, and an undescribed Polanisia from Bhurtpore. 

 The Erodium is particularly interesting from its being an 

 Affghan form: the genus has not hitherto been met with 

 in the plains of India. 



From J. P. Cathcart, Esq. of Purneah, a small collection 

 containing an undescribed species of Utricularia. 



Government having ordered the formation of an Herbaria 

 in the H. C. Botanic Gardens, which will be naturally open 



A large and handsome tree, the flowers are much smaller and relative- 

 ly broader. 



The chief differences from Durio zibethinus regard the deep division 

 of the ordinary scales whence stellate hairs result, the shortness of 

 all the parts of the flower, the apparently simple anthers, which consist 

 of a discoid horizontal connectivum with a marginal entire loculus. 

 The fruit, 1 believe, is not eaten ; its spines are longer. 



I have a third species of the genus, the Dorianne Ootang : a fourth 

 Dorianne, the Dorianne Dorianne of the Malays, is my Heteropyxis, a 

 remarkable polypetalous genus of the same family. — W. G. 



