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had, however, been previously published in his 4 Fragmenta Phyto- 
graphim Australis,’ or in other papers on the Australian Flora. 
Amongst the Indian plants, those which attain the size of trees 
are especially worthy of notice, as indicating, perhaps, a closer pre¬ 
vious insular or continental connection than shrubby or herbaceous 
plants do ; such are Cedrelcc Toona , Melia composita, Atalaya salici- 
folia , Berry a Ammonilla , Bornbax Malabaricum , Briicect Sumatrana, 
Buclianania augustifolia , Calophyllum inophyllum , Erioglossum edule , 
JKelhania incana> Micromelum pubescens , Bterosperma acerifolium , 
Semecarpus Anacardium , Schmidelia serrato , Sterculia foelida, Ximenia 
Americana , Zizyphus jujuba ; besides, of littoral trees, Carapa mol- 
luceensis, Colubrina Asiatica , Commersonia echinata , Bodoncea viscosa, 
ELeritiera littoralis and Thespesia populnea. 
There is also a curious connection between the Australian and 
African and Madagascar Floras, which is quite independent of the 
Asiatic, and illustrated by such singular genera as Keraudrenia , of 
which the only extra-Australian species is a Madagascar plant, and 
some others, but this will be better brought out when more of the 
work appears. 
With regard to the probable extent of the Australian Flora, a 
comparison of Bentham’s critical study of the first 39 Orders, with 
the estimate of the same Orders made by Dr. J. Hooker for his 
‘ Introductory Essay to the Flora of Tasmania,’ shows a very close 
agreement—-1072 species against 1040. If the future volumes show 
an equal approximation, the total number of flowering plants and 
ferns in Australia will approach 7000, and require six or seven 
volumes to include them all, in the present form. 
Cape Flora.' —Drs. Harvey and Bonders’ Flora Capensis, alluded to 
in the original notice of Colonial Floras already referred to, has reached 
the second volume, which includes the orders Leguminosse to Lorantha- 
eea?; and the third, which will include the Composite by Hr. Harvey, 
is far advanced towards completion. It is with the first volume alone 
that we shall now concern ourselves, because of the many parallels it 
affords with the Australian volume just reviewed. Like it, the 
volume beginning with Banunculaceae ends just before Leguminosse, 
and thus affords an accurate standard between two of the richest of 
the Floras of the Grlobe, both placed in the Southern Hemisphere— 
both terminating great continents—both eminently peculiar and 
abounding in Endemic forms, generic as well as specific, and both 
consisting for the most part of temperate plants. 
In the comparisons of these Floras hitherto made, the palm for 
peculiarity has hitherto been awarded to Australia ; how far this is a 
correct award cannot be known until a much greater advance is made 
in each of these two great descriptive works ; as, however, the labour 
of comparing the two whole Floras when finished (probably contain¬ 
ing an aggregate of upwards of 16,000 species) will be immense, we 
purpose to prepare the way for it by taking the volumes as they 
appear in couples. 
