404 Lieut.-Col. Madden on some Plants with transversely wrinkled elytra, but smaller than the smallest individuals of that species, and easily distinguished by the wholly different form of the antennae, by the gradually narrowed and not truncate elytra, and the stronger more distant transverse wrinkling. The club of the antennae is as a rule somewhat darker, the last joint somewhat larger than the preceding, cone-shaped, acuminate. Kraatz says that it is taken near Berlin in loose sand at the foot of old oak-trees, and that it is frequent in moors. [To be continued.] XX XIV. — Elucidation of some Plants mentioned in Dr. Francis Hamilton's Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. By Lieut.-Col. Madden, F.R.S.E., President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh*. The possession by the University of Edinburgh of the duplicate herbarium (unfortunately incomplete) and the valuable MS. Catalogue of the Plants collected in Nepal and other parts of India by the late Dr. Francis Hamilton (formerly Buchanan), has recently afforded me the opportunity of comparing them with some which he has introduced into his 'Account of Nepal,' only, or chiefly, by their vernacular designations, which are of no assistance to the English reader. Of the result of this examination I purpose to submit a short statement to the Bo-tanical Society, to the members of which it may prove the more interesting from the fact that, in several cases, the scientific names have not hitherto been given in any, even the latest, works on Indian Botany which have fallen under my notice, although the plants are well known and of general utility in India. Nor will it be considered inconsistent with the object of our meetings, to dedicate a brief space to an in-quiry into the botany of a district which engaged the in-terest and employed the time of this accomplished naturalist f, * Read to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, June 12, 1856. The death of the author having occurred since this paper was read before the Botanical Society, it has been printed without the benefit of his cor-rections. t The genus Hamiltonia, of the order Cinchonaceae, was devoted by Roxburgh to the memory of this " illustrious peregrinator," as he is called by D. Don. H. suaveolens is a shrub of the Rajmahal and other hills of Behar ; and a very beautiful azure-blue variety abounds all along the base of the Himalaya, the H. azurea of Wallich, scabra of D. Don, propinqua of Jacquemont. The flowers are sweetly fragrant till bruised, when they exhale a most fcetid odour, from which the plant derives its Kumaon name
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