o90 On some Plants^ mostly undescribed^ 3fc. 



ground work of a Flora of Lower Bengal, to which it exhibits 

 many interesting additions, I trust to have shewn very suffi- 

 cient reasons in justification of the name. For, though prece- 

 dents would not be wanting in favour of the sufficiency of 

 mere friendship to the establishment of a name in science, I 

 wisfi to shew that Mr. Voigt has real claims to the grateful 

 remembrance of all students of the amabilis scientia. For 

 the anagram the confused synonymy of Voigtia, and its ex- 

 treme similarity to Voitia must be my apology. 



It is I am told the Rottlera nivea of Dr. Roxburgh, 

 which name however I do not find in his arranged MSS. or 

 in the Hortus Bengalensis, although it appears to have 

 been introduced by the Rev^ F. Carey from Ava in 1808. 



There are two or three trees in the Gardens, which 

 flower and appear to ripen seeds in July and August, 

 although I have not yet seen male flowers. 



It appears to approach in some respects to Anda and 

 Aleurites. It may be readily recognised among the section 

 with corollas and uni-ovulate cells of the ovarium by its dru- 

 paceous 1-celled, 1-seeded fruit. 



Description of a collection of Fishes made at Chusan and 

 Ningpo in China, by Dr. G. R. Playfair, Surgeon of the 

 Phlegethon, War Steamer, during the late Military opera- 

 tions in that country. By J. M'Clellanb, Bengal Medi- 

 cal Service, vid. plates xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, and xxv. 



It would be impossible to comprise in so small space, a 

 greater amount of interest, than the little collection forming 

 the subject of this paper affords. Of about thirty species, 

 half of them are new ; of the species which are not new, 

 some are highly interesting ; of these I may mention Cy- 

 prinus putitora, Buch., Silurus bimaculatuSy Bl., and S. 



