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Altona, 22Us. ..{ 30 7 | 30 7) 30 7 29° 91.99 7}. 29 7} 29.7) 29 
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Oporto-«-++ ..... 64 64 64 64 64 6+ 64 
Rio Janeiro......| 674 67 674 67% | 67h | 677i | O7Z 
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WM. ‘LurRQuAND, Exchange and Stock Broker, 
No. 9, St. Miehael’s Alley, Cornhill. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
[% No. 115, of the Botanift’s Repofitory, we find Ferulapersica ; the plant fuppofed to pro- 
duce the Affa-feetida; and indeed, as it was produced from feeds fent to Peterfburgh, 
from the fpot whence this drug is known to come, there can be little doubt, when the very 
ftrong {mell of Affa-feetida, which pervades every part of the herb,is taken into the account, 
but that it is the real plant. From Peterfburgh, it was communicated to Dr. Hope, the 
late profeffor of Botany, at Edinburgh, where ripe feeds were produced, and the young 
plants have been diftributed to many other botanic gardens; yet it is ftill very far from 
being common. 
Kempfers, in his Amenitates Exotice, has given a very full account of the plant which 
produces the Affa-foetida, and the mode of collecting it, accompanied with a figure, which fo 
ill accords with Dr. Hope’s plant, that it has been hence concluded, that the two fpecies 
muft be different. Yet this author, when in Perfia, took very great pains to enquire if 
there Were more than one ; and although the natives themfelves believed there were two, 
yet upon a careful comparifon of them both, he was convinced that there was only one 
fpecies. But he remarks, that the leaves of different individuals were fo very unlike one 
aucther, that when alone examined, no one would hefitate to pronoance them not to belong 
_ tothe fame fpecies. The umbels, however, in his figure, are fully as unlike to our plant, 
as the leaves; we mutt therefore conclude, that our author has done right in separating the 
Ferula perfica, from the Affa-fetida, ot Kempfer; but he would have done better, had he 
acknowledged that, in fo doing, he was following his predeceflors, and that the plants were 
_confideted as diftinét m Willdenow’s edition of the fpecies Plantarum of Linneus. An un- 
important variety of Camellia jzponica, in which, part of the filaments are become petal-like. 
Vetea acutiflora, a new fpecies of Verea, with white fharp-pointed petals, from‘the collec- 
tion of the late Right Honeurahle Charles Greville, at Paddington, whofe death is a public 
lofs to the fcience of Natural Hiftory. Heranthemum fragrans, a new fpecies, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, chiefly valuable on account of its flowers being fragrant; which, as is 
‘here obferved, is a very unufual circumftance in plants of this genus. What is here fup- 
pofed to be a new fpecies of Cynanchum, and named dicoler, but which appears to us to be a 
mere variety of extensum of Jacquin, and Hortus Kewinfis. _ 
In Number 116 of the fame work, we have Mimosa Elegans, fuppofed to bea new fpe- 
cies, a native ef New South Wales, growmg ten feet high, in the confervatery of Mr. 
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