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selves to M. A. Huet du Pavilion, Eue Verdaine, No. 266, Geneva, or 

 may communicate Avith G. Bentham, Esq., Pontrilas House, Hereford. 



Mr, Spruce^ s South American Plants. 



By a letter in our last number it will be seen that ]Mr. Spruce has 

 penetrated, by the way of the Amazon and Eio Negro, into Vene- 

 zuela ; and that he is about to make the attempt to reach the sources 

 of the Orinoco. His last great excursion was a very productive one, 

 on the XJaupes river, where he spent seven months, and has thence 

 sent home collections amounting to 500 species, of which he considers 

 a very large proportion to be novf. Mr. Bentham will, at as early a 

 period as possible, arrange the sets ready for distribution ; and we take 

 this opportunity of saying that a few (though very good) sets of the 

 former collections still remain on hand. 



Drtimmond^s Plants from tJie North of Western Australia. 



The general nature of this collection will be best understood by a 

 perusal of Mr, Drummond's letter, published in our last volume, p. 115, 

 etc. The number of species docs not much exceed two hundred; 

 they are indeed rather a selection than a collection; and being made 

 during an eighteen months' excursion, extending to a distance of three 

 hundred miles north of the Swan Eiver, they may be expected to 

 contain, as they really do, many new species, and particularly fine Pro- 

 teace(S. The specimens are in excellent condition, and the sets are 

 placed in the hands of E. Heward, Esq., Young-street, Kensington, for 

 distribution. 



Plants of Tmiis, 



Mr. P. B. W 

 !tor, M. Krali 



be hoped that sets will be made up and allowed to be purchased by 

 those stay-at-home botanists who desire to possess the plants of this 

 region of Barbary. 



