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BOTANICAL NEWS. 369
There is yet a third Part to be expected, treating of the segregate
species, and the '• aliens " and " casuals." We trust Mr. Watson will
have health and leisure to complete it.
BOTANICAL NEWS.
Professor Belin, of Hamburg, has been elected, by the majority of the
Council of President Adjuncts, President of the Imperial German Academy
Naturas Curiosorum, and has accepted the office.
Mr. Kurz, of Calcutta, sends us a reprint of his ' Supplementary Remarks '
to his ' Revision of Indian Screw-pines ' (Seem. Journ. Bot. Vol. V. p. 93), wliich
he has published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and we also
receive a translation of this, made by Dr. Hasskarl, and recently pubhshed
in the Ratisbon Flora. Mr. Kurz does not seem to have noticed the remarks
on Sandwich Island Fandanem, made by the late Horace Mann in his * Enu-
meration of Hawaiian Plants ' (Proceedings of American Academy) . The fol-
lowing errors and omissions, wliich crept into his paper in our Journal, are thus
corrected: Typha elephantina, p. 95, read folia .... basi triquetra, lateribus
concavis, supra plana ; instead of " excavato-trigona." II. Pandanece, p. 91,
add Ovarium superum. III. CyclanthecB, p. 94, add Ovarium inferum. The
FreycinetiecB are to be transferred to II. Pandaneca. Pandanus furcatus, var.
Indica, p. 102, read drupse valde convexse, for " concavae." Pandanus Icevis,
p. 127, read spadix masc, etc., sed hae Isevissimse, instead of " brevissimse."
Mr. Kurz has also printed in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
a paper on Pandanophyllum and allied genera, among them Scirpodendron, the
most gigantic of all CyperacecB, the leaves being 6-9 feet long.
Professor Alexander Braun has recently read before the Berlin Academy
papers on Isoetes Kirhi, of New Zealand, a malformation of Podocarpus Chi-
nensis, and some Oaks struck by lightning which, as well as all that proceeds
from the pen of that thoughtful and conscientious botanist, will be studied with
interest and profit.
The last published part of De Candolle's ' Prodromus ' contains the follow-
ing Natural Orders :
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Laphniphyllacece and Buxacece, by Miiller Arg. ;
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trecB and CannabinecE, by Alph. de Candolle ; Urticea, by WeddeU ; Piperacece,
by Casim. de Candolle ; Chloranthacea, by Solms ; and Oarryacece, by Alph
de Candolle. Ths next part is to complete this great work, but we hope and
trust that the editor may be induced to reconsider his resolve, and not exclude
the Monocotyledons, as he now means to do. Indeed, the extension of the
' Prodromus ' is of such vital importjince, that all our academies and natural
history societies ought to assist, by all means in their power, even largely,
pecuniarily, if it should be required, to promote it.
Professor OUver has published a most acceptable handbook, entitled, ' First
Book of Indian Botany' (Macmillan and Co)., an adaptation of the author's
* Lessons in Elementai-y Botany,' for use in India.
VOL. VII. [DECEMBER 1, 1869.
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