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CATALOGUE RAISONNE. 
OBSERVATIONS on the Mean Annual Temperature of Funchal in Madeira. 
By C. HEINEKEN, M.D. : 
Heberden gives for Funchal, as corrected by Schouw, 67.3; De Humboldt 
68.5. ; but he prefers Heberden’s mean ; for he gave it to Risso in 1826 as 
the mean of Funchal. From Dr. Brewster’s formula it would be 68.7 ; and 
from Dr. Heineker’s observations 66.7. But this gentleman is inclined 
to compare his three years mean, and the result of Dr. Heberden’s ob- 
servations, which would give 66.3. Dr. Heineken thinks that the mean 
given for all low latitudes, is considerably too high.—Edin. Journ. of 
Science, No. I. N.S. p. 46. 
Observations on the Characters and Affinities of Darwinia, Brunsfelsia, Brow- 
allia, Argylia, Eceremocarpus, and of a Plant improperly referred to the last Ge- 
nus. By Mr. Davin Don, Librarian of the Linnean Society, &e. &c. 
Mr. Don refers the Darwinia to the Nat. Ord. of Myrtacea of Brown, and 
describes two species, D. fascicularis and D. taxifolia, both from New 
Holland. The Franciscea uniflora of Hooker, is described from a speci- 
men in the collection of the Comtesse de Vandes at Bayswater, under the 
name of Brunsfelsia uniflora, and referred to the Nat. Ord. Solanee, Juss. 
From the form and plicate estivation of the corolla, Mr. Don also pro- 
poses to remove the Browallia (whose generic characters he details with 
great accuracy, from the Scrophularine to the Solanee. The generic 
characters of the Argylia, (Ed. Phil. Jour. Oct. 1823.) are now made 
more perfect, and a new species, gathered by Mr. Caldcleugh at Coquim- 
bo, is added. 
«¢ A. canescens, cano-pubescenss; foliorum segmentis linearibus canali- 
culatis, corolla tubo calycem parum excedente. 
Hab. in Chili ad Coquimbo. Caldcleugh.” 
Herba habitu graciliore, pube copiosa brevi canescens. Flores minores, 
The genus Eccremocarpus is limited to include the E. viridis of Ruiz and 
Pavon, and the E. longiflorus of Humboldt and Bonpland ; but the E. 
scaber is separated as a distinct genus, (Calempalis.) ‘These genera, to- 
gether with Tourretia, Mr. Don considers as clearly referable to the Big- 
noniacee, of which they appear to him to constitute an osculant Bune 
SO ay that family with the Cobeacee.—EHdin. Phil. Jour. No. XIII. 
Pp. Ov. : 
Notice sur le genre Hedychium, de la Famille des Musacées, (Balisiers et 
Bananiers. By Tu. LEstisoupots, Professor of Botany at Lille. * 
The modern and exact description which Mr. Robert Brown has given of 
all the Scitaminez, endows them with a double calyx, the external trilo- 
bated, the internal with two divisions, of which the external is trilo- 
bated, and the internal one has also three lobes, the intermediate lobe be- 
ing itself bi- or tri-lobated. He further describes two little bodies, which 
he considers to be sterile stamens, the whole five of which are in the He- 
dychium, according to Dr. Lestiboudois, contained in the internal limb 
of his second calyx. 
Tn a previous memoir, this botanist had succeeded in establishing in the 
Canna indica, the regular type, and ternary number, proper to the flow- 
ers of monocotyledonous plants. After applying these researches to the 
abortions which are met with in the neighbouring families, more espe- 
cially the Orchidex, he endeavoured to find the analogous organs in the 
other genera of the Balisiers, and he succeeded in finding the calyx with 
six divisions, and the corpuscules, which represented five sterile stamens. 
Hitherto botanists have given one stamen to the Balisiers, and six to the 
Bananiers, but this character Dr. Lestiboudois considers, from these 
researches, to have nothing real in it. The Musa, he says, carries two 
sorts of flowers, the first unfruitful, having five fertile stamens and one 
sterile ; the other fruitful, having one fertile stamen and five sterile. In 
the Strelitzia and the Heliconia, the abortion of a stamen may be ob- 
served, which has almost entirely disappeared, and soldered itself with.a 
