flower; not imperfect and clandestine like those of the 
generality of Milkworts, among which they have been over- » 
looked even by the most attentive Botanists. Is this cir- 
cumstance peculiar to the West Indian congeners, or be- 
longing to paniculata alone? We have seen no other from 
those parts. 
_Paniculata is found in the shade of the mountain-forests 
and moisture of river-sides of St. Domingo‘and Jamaica. 
The genus extends itself, by the types of various and 
numerous species, over every quarter of the earth. 
An upright diminutive annual, seldom exceeding six 
inches in height, furred with a minute glandular pubes- 
.cence; branches fastigiant (growing to a level one with the 
other), and as well as the stem round. Leaves loosely scat- 
tered, almost sessile, lanceolately linear, scarcely more 
than a line broad. Racemes upright, loosely many-flowered, 
leafless, peduncles long, filiform ; pedicles capillary, bracte- 
less, one-flowered, shorter than the flower, in bloom upright, 
‘in. fruit drooping. Flowers small, purplish white, loosely 
Scattered, scarcely more than one’ line long. Calyx 5-cleft; 
‘three segments herbaceous with a narrow white edge, the 
“uppermost bipartite and incumbent upon the stamens and 
in lieu of the vexillum, lowermost entire and resembling 
-the lobes of the uppermost, two lateral ones aleform co- 
‘loured, equal to the corolla, lanceolately oblong, upright, 
and spreading. Alc of the corolla whitish and equal to 
-the carina, oblong, obtuse :- carina whitish, crested. 
ed 
___N. In the Eharatier of (Baits (fol. 721. of this volume) the words 
“« porrectum, Avena, are an unintentional STUD and should be 
omitted. - ; 
We are requested to state, “hat the plant from Pind our figure of Scur- 
“ZOPETALON Walkeri (fol. 752 of this vol.) was taken in the garden of the 
- Horticultural Society, had been raised from seeds presented to the Society 
by Mr. Rebels Hn 4 
