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Each ‘subscriber for a single share, who agrees to the 
additional payment of 10s., can rely upon his share of 200 
specimens containing every one of the above enumerated 
plants. 
Those subscribers who have paid for double shares, and 
on whom no additional demand can be made, will find the 
above printed notice put up with their respective shares. 
(Signed) Pror. HocusrETTER. 
Dn. STEUDEL. 
A SKETCH 
THE PROVINCE OF EMERINA,* 
In the Island of Madagascar, and of the Huwa, its Inhabitants ; 
WRITTEN DURING A YEAR'S RESIDENCE 
BY THE BOTANISTS 
CHARLES THEODORE HILSENBERG or ERFURT, 
! AND 
WENCESLAUS BOJER or PRAGUE, IN BOHEMIA. 
(With an APPENDIX on the TANGHINA POISON.) 
** Til faut chercher seulement à penser et à parler juste, sans vouloir amener 
les autres à nôtre gout et à nos sentimens.” —La Bruyere, 
: Tannanarivou, Emerina, May, 1823. 
PREFACE. d 
OF all the provinces into which the great Island of Madagas- 
car is divided, none attracts so much curiosity at this moment 
as the province of Emerina, not only by its situation, its great 
* Every one who has taken any interest in the Botany of the east coast of 
Africa, and of the islands of Mauritius and Madagascar, is aware what great 
