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Herba annua, subbipollicaris. Folia 6 lin. longa, vix 

 lineam lata. Involucrum 3 lin. longum. 



Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. 22, 1844. 



(To be continued.) 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Zeyher's South African Plants. 



Sufficient has already appeared in this Journal respecting 

 Mr. Zeyher, and enough also of the yet unfinished narrative 

 of his travels,* to satisfy our readers that the collections of 

 such a botanist can be of no ordinary character. These 

 collections are now divided by Mr. Zeyher into three 

 groupes. 



1. Plants gathered during a journey in company with 

 Mr. Burke, from Graham's Town to Macalisberg in lat. 24° 

 south. 



2. Plants gathered to the northward and westward ot 

 the Cape Colony; viz. in Namaqua Land and Bushman 

 Country. 



3. Plants gathered in the Cape Colony. 



The first and second of these are now offered for sale, 

 namely the plants of the Macalisberg Journey, and those of 

 Namaqua and Bushman's Country. These two collections 

 united amount to from one thousand one hundred, to one 

 thousand four hundred, fifteen sets of each, The price of 

 the Macalisberg plants is reckoned at £2 the hundred spe- 

 cies ; those of Namaqua and Bushman's Country at £1 1°** 

 the hundred species, all expenses included. It will be 

 observed that of the above mentioned fifteen sets, the early 

 numbers contain the greater proportion of species from 



* See vol. iv, p. 643, and the present volume of this Journal, p. 



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