278. Monthly Botanical Report. [April f, 
Zea. At this time the Company’s tea sale is going on, and the prices of all kinds of black 
tea, such as Bohea, Congou, and Souchong, have advanced nearly 4d. per lb. Hysons and all 
Kinds of green teas continue in price as usual. 
Wine continues to advance in price, and fine old port cannot now be purchased under the 
enormous price of 100 g: uineas per pipe. Claretis plenty in the market, and that of good qua- 
Hity, sells from 851. to 901. per hogshead. Good old sherry is rather scarce, and that of fine - 
pale coloured wine brings 9UL. per butt. Old Madeira from the East Indies, brings 1251. per 
Pipe of 110 gallons. 
The late public sales of merchandize have beans as follows, viz. 
By Messrs. Kymer, isiceg'e & Co. 93.3 casks & cags of coffee from 50s. to 172s. ‘per ewt. 
weve ecccecwereceseccee 430 hhds. & 411 bags of ditto, from 72s. to 121s. 6d. per do. 
eseeeeses Coles and Sones 238 casks & 342 do. of coffee, from 76s. to 121s. 6d. per do. 
ereeceee Blacke & Kemble 578 hhds. 24 trs. & 2 barrels of Mus. sugar 40s. to 69s. per do. 
Sree sata alee, Wectece 540 hhds. ditto from 58s. 6d. to 71s. per do. 
©n account of the distress of the poor sille manufacturers, for want of work, owing to the 
great scarcity of raw silk as usual from Italy ; the East India Corspany have ieaueid a declara- 
tion highly honourable to them, which they have agreed to put up to sale, on the 5th of April,~ 
977 bales of Bengal raw silk, and 177 bales of Organzine, being, in the whole, an increase of 
84 bales beyond what was named in their declaration of the Sd. instant, and 204 bales beyond 
what was originally intended to have been sold on that day. 
COURSE OF EXCHANGE. 
Mar... .. | Mar. 21, Mar. 15.] & .: Prices of Hops. 
Feamburgh.. [34 oe |34 
6 ees 5A 6 maha 
MACOS Sb HOE IT ces ele 
7 
6 
7 ..(34 7 ..|Bags.—Kent, 41. 15s. to 61. per cwt. _ 
Amsterdam {35 weeefOD 7 ~..(36 7 ..|——— Sussex, 41. 10s.to 51. 8s. per cwt. 
Paris ....../23 10 ..../23 10 ../23 10 ../——_—_ Essex, 41. 10s. to 51. 15s. per cwt. 
Leghorn....|493 ......|492 .... [493 Pockets.—Kent, 51. to 7). per cwt. 
4 qe? se 
Beeps. ete PAE. ig ig + prawn htt hae o BGs « Gale's Sussex, 41. 15s. to 51. 15s: per ewt. 
Genoa ...../452 ...2.-}52 .... [452 2... |—-- Farnham, 61. 10s. to 101. 10s.per cwte 
Lisbon .....J60 ..46.0/60 ...|60 ....| The average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
Oporto ....{60 ......|60 ..../60 ....)9th of March, 1808, is 34s. 9d. per cwts 
Dublin ..... [10% ......'102 ++ [102 .... hinclusive alg 
Agio of the Bank of Holland 52 per cent. 
The following are the average Prices of Canal Shares, &c. &c. at the Office of Messrs. L. 
Wolfe and Co. Shorter’s Court.—-London Dock Stack; 1091. per cent.—-East India ditto 
1201. for the opening.—West India ditto, 1431. per cent.-—Coni menial Dock Shares, 126i. 
per cent.--Grangd Junction Canal, 921. per share.—Grand Surrey Canal, per share.--Im- 
pecial Fire Insurance, 111. per cent premium.—Globe Fire and Life Insurance 1101. per cent 
Albion Fire and Life Insurance, 3], per cent. premium. —Hope Fire and Life Assurance, 41, 
per share premium.—Rock Life Assurance, from 5s. to 7s. per share premium.<—East London 
Water Works, from 551. to GOL per share premium.—West Middlesex Water Works, 18 
Guineas per share premium —South London Water Works, 601. per share premium.-~-Londen 
Institution, 85 guineas per share premium.—Commercial Road, 118]. per share. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
N_the last number of the Botanical Magazine, we find, 1. Gethyllis spiralis, a genus of 
plants peculiar te the Cape of Good Hope, in many respects resembling Colchicum, but 
the fruit is a berry, which, in the present species at least, if not in all, is very fragrant and 
eatable. Mr. Gawler remarks, that this genus, in the natural order to which it belongs, 
affords a singular instance of great diversity in the number of stamens, but that this diversity 
is constant in the particular species, and not varying as if occasioned by the Sporting of a-too 
luxuriant nature; consequently the number of these organs affords excellent discriminative 
characters in defining the species. Very few species have as yet been seenin this country, and none 
that we know of have perfected their fruit. 2. Amaryllis humilis, 8. a beautiful variety, with 
flowers of a pale minium coleur. In-this article, Mr. Gawler has given a. synopsis or all the 
Species of Amaryllis known to him. About one half of these have been figured in the Ma- 
gazine. 3. Amaryllis wenusta. This species is very nearly allied to A. sarnieusis and cur- 
wifolia. From the latter it scarcely difters but in the leaves and stem not having the same. 
glaucous } hue. Botanists often appear to us to be actuated by somewhat of caprice in deter- 
mining whether two plants shail be considered as distinct species, or mere varieties of each 
other. Surely the preceding article is fully as distinct from the variety of Aumi‘ig, before 
figured, as the present one is from curvifolia. 4. Veltheimia glauca, Aletris of Hortus Kew- 
ensis. 5. Anthyliis cretica, of Lamarck and Wiildenow ; Ebenus cretica, of former botanists, 
a handsome greenhouse shrub, long known in our gardens. by the lattermame. 6. Ziziphora 
Pourcéxini, a second new species of this genus lately introduced from Caucasus by Mr. page 
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