■presented to tlie Botanic Garden of ‘ Edinburgh. IW 
wards the end of the voyage, were alive and healthy ; and had 
it not been for the late period of the season, at the time of their 
arrival towards the middle of October, nearly the whole might 
have survived the winter. Several of those that died, owed 
their fate to an accidental injury from the spray of sea- water, 
owing to the inattention of some boys. Among these we have 
to regret a nondescript species of Rosa from Almara, two new 
species of Jasminum — lancifolium and — laurifolium. Three spe- 
cies of Ficus, — quercifolia, — virgata and — elastica; Quercustur- 
binata, Taxus chinensis (Roxb ), and Tectona grandis. To 
these are to be added certain Orchidese, viz. Gomphostyiis Can- 
dida, and — praecox (Wallich), (Epidendrum, Smith), and Aerides 
guttatum.?^ A new Cypripedium, viz. venustum, (V/al.) charac- 
terised by Mr Brown, and figured in the Botanical Magazine 
for February last : a Napaul species of this great family is how- 
ever at present alive, and it is to^be hoped will afford offsets, 
and thus continue its race. This species, which like the C. hu- 
mile is acaulous, has clearly, in the present instance, suffered from 
exposure to a temperature in the stove too high for plants, whose 
geographical range is so elevated as the territory of Napaul. The 
Orchidese of the Northern Hemisphere hitherto described, in- 
cluding Cypripedium, Orchis, Ophrys, and Epipactis, have sel- 
' dom been found beyond it ; and their number, so far as we yet 
know, is extremely limited, when compared with the Tropical 
species; but the existence of a new Cypripedium towards the 
base of the Thibet Mountains, leads one to expect other plants, 
likely to occur under a similar elevation, still more to the south- 
ward and eastward. What an extensive field for the naturalist 
is now opened by our uninterrupted intercourse with every quar- 
ter of India, — O^iv TroXvq 01 ^2 i^yroi oXiyoi ! Much, however, 
has been lately done by the well directed zeal of the Marquis 
of Hastings, whose patronage of the Natural Sciences in general, 
is already amply manifested. 
Among the plants which arrived in the above collection, 
the following are healthy, and likely to do well : 
Panax digitatnni. 
fra grans. 
fmti cosum. 
Beobotrys ramentacea. 
Guarea vinetifera. 
Aiistolochia saccata. 
Stylocarpiis umbel lata. 
Peliosanthus seta. 
Eimonia scandens. 
Dracaena spicata. 
Callicarpa lanceolata. 
Sapindus detergens, &c. &c. 
