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Linncean Society. 



the affinities of the species and genus, general considerations on the 

 family, the country, together with the method of cultivation, and the 

 explanation of the plates in double columns in German. The fol- 

 lowing plants are treated of : Puya Altensteinii, n. sp. ; Lobelia disco- 

 lor, n. sp., from Mexico ; Olinia capensis, Kl., from the Cape, of which 

 plant we cannot convince ourselves that it belongs to the Myrtacea ; 

 Oralis Ottonis, KL, from Cuba; Microstylis histionantha , n. sp., from 

 La Guayra ; Oncidium Carthaginense, Swartz, from Maracaybo; Bego- 

 nia punctata, n. sp., from Mexico ; Asterostrichion sidoides, n. gen. 

 et spec, Fam. Malvacea, from New Holland ; Acanthostachys strobi- 

 lacea, n. gen. et spec, Fam. Bromeliacece, from South Brazil; Si- 

 syrinchium majale, n. sp., from Valparaiso ; Spiranthes Lindleyana, 

 n. sp., from La Guayra and Caracas; Marianihus cceruleo-punctatus, 

 n. sp., from Van Diemen's Land. Linncea, Part V. 1840. 



Verhandelingen over deNatuurlijke Geschiedenis derNedelandsche Over- 

 zeesche Bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige Commissie in 

 Oost-Indie en andere Schrijvers. 



Under this title it is intended to publish, under the direction of 

 the Government, a work which will give an account of the nume- 

 rous discoveries which have been made in the various colonies of the 

 Netherlands by their scientific expeditions. The Government will 

 name a commission to superintend the printing and execution of the 

 work. The various memoirs will be arranged in three divisions : 

 1. Zoology, 2. Botany, 3. Geography and Ethnography. Each di- 

 vision will form a volume in small folio, and will be illustrated with 

 several lithographed plates. The price is moderate. Linnaea, Part 

 V. 1840. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



LINNJ5AN SOCIETY. 



November 17, 1840.— Mr. Forster, V.P., in the Chair. 

 Mr, Janson, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of the Neottia cestivalis, 

 discovered in August last by himself and Mr. Branch, near Lynd- 

 hurst, Hampshire, being the first time it had been observed in 

 England. 



Mr. Ogilby, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen in flower of a new 

 species of clover recently introduced from Cabul, remarkable for the 

 quantity of herbage which it yields. The species is very nearly re- 

 lated to Tri folium resupinatum. 



Read, " Description of Aucklandia, a new genus of Composite, 

 supposed to be the Costus of Dioscorides." By Hugh Falconer, 

 M.D., Superintendent of the Honourable East India Company's 

 Botanic Garden at Saharunpore. Communicated by Dr. Royle, 

 F.R.S. & L.S. 



This interesting plant, the root of which, under the name of koot, 

 forms an important article of Cashmeer commerce, is considered by 

 Dr. Falconer as identical with the long-disputed Costus of the an- 



