Drs. Wight and Arnott's Illustrations of Indian Botany, 111 The florets of the ray are from six to ten ; they are twice as long as the squamce of the involucre ; yet as they are broad, with several veins, as well as on account of the form of the leaves, it is probable that this plant belongs rather to the W. platyglossa than to the W. stenoglossa. 33. Bidens bipinnata, Linn. DC. Prod. 5. p. 603. — British Guiana. Schomburgk, n.455. 34. Cosmos cauilatus, H. B. et K. DC. Prod. 5. p. 60G.— French Gui-ana. Herb. Par. n. 150. 35. Schomburglcia calcoides. DC. Prod. 7. p. 294. — British Guiana. Schomburgk, n. 474. A short time before the publication of the seventh volume of the Prodromus a fine Orchidaceous genus was dedicated to Schomburgk, by Lindley, in the second part of his ' Sertum Orchidaceum,' which renders it necessary to change the name of DeCandolle's Schom-burgkia. I have, however, been unwilling so to do until the publi-cation of the ninth of his * Collection de Memoires,' where the plant is figured ; as some other generic name will probably there be given to it. 36. Gnaphalium americanum,Mi\\-DC. Prod. 6. p. 234.T— British Gui-ana. Schomburgk, n. 573. [To be continued.] XIV. — Illustrations of Indian Botany. By Drs. Wight and Arnott. [Continued from vol. i. p. 395.] Acalypha ciliata. Plate V. Herbacca, spicis androgynis axillaribus densis, floribus supcrioribus mas-culis paucis, fcemineis pluribus alternis, involucris hispidis profundc fimbriato-ciliatis, foliis longc petiolatis rhombeo-ovatis acuminatis serra-tis hispidis. Acalypha ciliata. Forsh. Fl. /Egypt. Arab. p. 1G2. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 879. Herbaceous, erect, with few branches. Stems hollow, angled, to-mentose. Leaves alternate, rhombeo-ovate., acuminate, crenato-ser-rate, ciliate on the margins, slightly hairy on both sides. Spikes an-drogynous, axillary, shorter than the petioles, furnished at the apex with a double stellated appendage, the latinise of which are villous : this body Jussicu considers an abortive male flower. Male flowers few superior, extremely minute, clustered within one or several small bracteas. Female flowers below, numerous, alternate, inclosed with-in a large, cordate, fimbriated, hairy, persistent involucre. Calyx of
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