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About 200 species of the Peninsula of India were communicated by 
the excellent Dr. Wight, director of cotton culture. From Assam and 
the Khassia range, the eminent botanist William Griffith presented 
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290 species ; and from Java and the other Sunda Islands, Reinwardt, 
Siebold, Blume, Korthals, and Müller sent specimens. In this her- 
barium, as in the general one, the flora of Africa is indifferently re- 
presented, with the exception of the Cape of Good Hope. Besides a 
considerable number of Egyptian plants, there are a few from Madeira, 
given by Pohl, Hochstetter, and Holl; and a valuable series of Sene- 
gambian plants furnished by Thomas Déllinger, by Sieber, and by 
Baumann. On the other hand, the Cape flora is supplied by more 
than 2,000 species from Ecklon, Drége, Sieber, Brehm, and Kraus 
(those of the latter through Henschel, E. Meyer, and Von Schrank).* - 
The Mascarenhan plants, which generally occur but rarely in her- 
bariums, are but few; they were furnished by Sieber and Bojer. 
Comparatively speaking, the herbarium is richest in American 
plants. They were furnished from Sitcha and the adjoining countries, 
* With the deserving Mr. C. F. Ecklon I became acquainted during my visit to 
South Africa, also with the worthy Dr. Pappe (engaged, I learn, in a monography on 
Irie), and Mr. C. L. Zeyher. The infirm health of the first-mentioned botanist 
deprived me of the advantage of his accompanying me on the tour I was permitted 
to make, in the first months of 1843, to the western district and mountams of the 
colony, with my inestimable friend Thomas Maclear, Esq., Astronomer Royal at the 
Cape of Good Hope. Of the indefatigable Mr. Zeyher there are notices in several 
portions of Vols. IV. and V. of the preceding series of this Journal. At present he is 
attached to the Botanic Garden at Cape Town as collector of plants; Mr. M‘Gibbon, 
late of the Royal Gardens at Kew, being the curator. The re-establishment of such 
an institution, at so important a locality, after having remained in abeyance during 
very many years, is indeed a matter, not only of local interest and congratulation, 
but of great consequence to similar institutions in other parts of the globe. It is 
chiefly to the exertions of the Rev. Dr. James Adamson, whose almost universal - 
knowledge, ardent zeal, and genuiue piety entitle him to the respect of all, and in - 
whom I honour a much-valued friend, that we owe this fortunate state of things. - 
Together with Dr. Pappe, and Messrs. Arderne and Clarence, Dr. Adamson consti- 
tuted a committee, under the orders of Government, to mature and carry into effect 
the arrangements connected with the garden, which now occupies fourteen acres of 
land, within the area of the Goverument grounds ; though not all in cultivation as - 
yet. Most of the plants in the beautiful garden of my late friend Baron C. von 
Ludwig, were purchased as the groundwork of the garden. I may mention here, 
that there exists a curious account, with a diagram, of the ancient Dutch East India 
Company’s Botanic Garden at Cape Town, in the very useful but exceedingly verbose 
and voluminous work of Francis Valentyn ; together with a list of plants collected 
by the Danish botanist Henry ey de Oldenland, who, it appears, was the 
curator in 1695. (See Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien, vol. v. part ii. pp. 17-30.) —— 
—N. WF. 
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