78 LETTERS FROM JAMES MOTLEY, ESQ. 
superante (subpollicari), ovario sessili villoso, stigmate laterali ovali 
obtuso.—Subtropical East New Holland, Sir T. Mitchell. —G. Mit- 
chellii, Lemann ! MSS. in herb., nec Hook. 
Though very near 6. chrysodendron, R. Br. (G. Mitchellit, Hook.), 
it is certainly distinct from this in the pubescence, which is not silky, in 
the more rigid leaves, the larger and ventricose calyx, the shape of the 
stigma, etc. ; nor does it agree with G. Sturtii, which we have not seen. 
37. Grevillea (Calothyrsus) Hookeriana, Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. i. p. 546. 
— Drummond, coll. vi. n. 184. 
(To be continued.) 
Extracts of Letters from the Malayan Islands, addressed to Sir W. J. 
Hooker and to W. Mitten, Esq.; by James Morey, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 47.) 
TO W. MITTEN, ESQ. 
Batavia, Oct. 9, 1854. 
You will, I suppose, be surprised to receive a letter dated from this 
place; but I have now entered into an arrangement with a Dutch 
Company, established here to work the mines of Netherlands’ India. 
We commence operations on a concession granted by Government 
to the Company, of nearly 500 square miles of coal-measures at 
Bansjarmassin, which you will find nearly at the south point of 
Borneo, and thither I now go as soon as a ship is procured. It 
.. is, I believe, a very fine country, and” will doubtless yield me some 
_ plants: the trip will of course delay very much my at present pro- 
. jected collection, but will certainly enable me to make it more in- 
teresting by giving the north and south range of many Grasses, over 
. about ten degrees of latitude. I of course must not now restrict it to 
. Singapore; say, “collected in the Indian Archipelago.” I have got 
.. &bout thirty sets, of perhaps sixty species each, already, and there are 
two or three common ones which I can pick up any day to add to the 
list. This is my second visit to Java; I came down at first about 
_ three months ago to arrange all this matter, and I then returned to 
Singapore for my family; we landed here this morning. We are in 
capital quarters, in the house of a Dr. Burger, who is one of the 
. Directors of the Company; he was formerly for many years attached 
