A species placed upon the records of the vegetable sys- 
tem from native samples in the Lambertian Herbarium, 
collected by Dr. Hamilton. in Nepal. We have preferred 
the original name to that in the “ Regni Vegetabilis Systema 
Generale,” &c. &c.; a work where the universal enumeration 
of the vegetation of no less than our entire globe is an- 
nounced, accompanied by the differential and natural cha- 
racters with a full synonymy of each species; but in his 
wild career the historian has stopped short at the history of 
not much more than a dozen of Linnzeus’s genera and one 
of the narrowest classes of his system. The botanic world 
~ was roused with the noise of this undertaking (actually an- 
nounced and opened at Geneva by the sound of drums and 
trumpets) nearly ten years ago; since which period two 
moderate octavo volumes haye been ushered amongst us, — 
containing insulated accounts, without beginning or end 
(or monographs according to natural order), of a few Lin- 
neean genera, together with the class» Tetradynamia, turned 
into orders; the whole entangled in a complex unmanage- 
able machinery by way of natural arrangement. — , 
And here we suspect is the extinction of this glaring 
phenomenon, intended to spread durable and universal 
light, but which has left us in the same darkness in which 
we were found. For ourselves, we are not disappointed in 
our expectations; the work has reached as far as they ever 
extended; with a view subdued by age and experience, we 
foresaw no other event. We might have prognosticated 
better success, or conceived more hope from the annun- 
ciation of a Supplement to some of the Linnzean Sequences, 
beginning with Monanpria and ending in Cryprocamia: 
such as a continuation of that invaluable and unrivalledly 
useful work, “ Willdenow’s Species Plantarum,” or even of 
an addition to the classic “ Catalogue of the Kew Collec- 
tion;” a monument of the taste and criticism of Solander 
and Dryander, the worthy disciples of Linnzeus, and the 
most accomplished scholars of their age; but where in the 
very title-page we see them robbed of the reward of their 
erudition (and we know they received no other) to give im- 
inortality and renown to vulgar ignorance, the names of 
native dunces being suffered to usurp the place belonging 
to those of the genius and talent of another land. 
_ Jussieu, the great luminary of his department and the 
original framer of the soundest natural system extant, still 
