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DEPAKTMENT OF BOTANY. 
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of singular interest, on account of its continued reproduction in 
European gardens by means of perfect seeds, produced without any 
apparent fertilization. On the two hinder shelves are specimens of 
various families of MoNOPETALiE, such as the Akgan of Morocco (Ar- 
GANiA siDEEOXYLON, R. cincl S.), applied by the Moors to many useful 
purposes, but chiefly remarkable for the quantity of oil derived from 
its nuts ; and the singular tuberous base of the stem of a species of 
Hyd^'ophttum, Jack., from the Moluccas, hollowed out (as is usual in 
these plants) to form a nidus for a colony of ants. The second shelf 
from the front is occupied by bottles containing flowers and fruits of 
the classes ApETALiE and Gymnospeemjs. Among the former the most 
conspicuous are the Nutmegs (Myristic a, L), in various stages of de- 
velopment, together with the flowers of Cinnamon (Laueus cinna- 
MOMUM, X.) and of the Lace-Baek (Lagetta ltntearta, Juss.). Of 
the latter are fruits of Gnetum gnemon, L., from the Moluccas, and 
half-ripened fruits of Encephalaetos pungens, LeJim., from the con- 
servatory at Chatsworth. On the floor are larger bottles containing 
unripe fruits of Encephalaetos Caffee, LeJim., from the Cape of 
Good Hope, flowers of Dammaea austealis. Lamb, (the Cowdy-Pine 
of New Zealand), flowers of the Waeata (Telopea speciostssima, 
R. Br.), the most splendid of New Holland Peoteace^, and fruits 
of the Chocolate-Nut (Theobeoma Cacao, L.). 
The upper shelves in Case 15 are occupied by Monocottledonous 
specimens of various families. On the lower shelves is placed a collection 
of Root-Paeasites, comprising several specimens of Eafflesia Ae- 
noldi, R. Br., the largest of known flowers, the whole plant consisting 
of a single flower, which, when expanded, measures three feet in dia- 
meter, a smaller species of the same genus (Rafflesia Cumingii, 
R. Br.), several species of Balanophoea, Forst., Cynomoeium cocci- 
NEUM, L., from the island of Gozo near Malta, Phyllocoeyne Jamai- 
censis, Hook. Jil., Lophophytum mteabile, Schott. and Endl., 
Saegophyte sanguinea, Sparm., Helosis Cayanensis, RicJi., Langs- 
DOEFB'iA HYPOG^A, Mart., a species of Mysteopetalum from the Cape 
of Good Hope, Aphyteta Hydnoea, L.JiL, also from Southern Africa, 
and Cytinus Ameeicanus, R. Br. The large bottles on the floor 
contain specimens of Rafflesia Aenoldi, R.Br., of the Beead-Feuit 
(Aetogaepus incisa, L. fil.), of the Jack (Aetocaepus integeifolia, 
L. Jil.), of the Palmeiea-Palm (Boeassus flabellifoemis, L.), and 
of a monstrously developed fruit, brought from China, of a species of 
Citeus, L., in which the divisions are enormously multiplied, and 
partially separated from each other. 
Cases 10, 17, and 18, which terminate the series of Wall-Cases, are 
devoted to a collection of Clay Models of English Fungi, made by 
the late Mr. James Sowerby, while engaged in the publication of his 
work on that tribe of plants, and representing for the most part the 
identical subjects depicted in it. They are all named in conformity 
with the work, and are furnished with references to the plates in 
which the species are figured. The arrangement is that of the Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley in the " English Flora" of Sir William J. Hooker. 
