MEMOIR OF CHAMISSO. 481 
- 80. C. barbata, (Grah. —W. et Arn.! Prodr. 1. p. 181.)— 
Wall! Cat. n. 5394. Flores ampli. 
Nilgherry hills, Noton? Wight ! 
31. C. longipes (W. et Arn. Prodr. 1. p. 183.) Species a 
me non visa. . 
Indian Peninsula, Colemala, Wight.. 
(To be continued.)* 
A Tribute to the Memory of ApELBERT Von Cuamisso, 
(especially with reference to his devotion to Botany), by 
D. F. L. Von SenrEscuTENDAL. à 
i (Translated from the German.) 
. Wnuaen, in the year 1824, I began executing my plan of 
publishing a periodical work on Botany, conducted upon 
purely scientific principles, I received much encouragement 
by the promised assistance and co-operation of a very cele- 
brated individual, who, as a man of learning, was possessed 
of various acquirements in many branches of knowledge, 
who had travelled much in distant parts of our world and 
lastly, as a poet, had been admitted among the German 
nation, of which, however, he was not, by birth, a. native. 
This person was Chamisso, and with bim 1 was connected 
for many years; for though he was considerably my senior 
in age, yet our mutual love for the study of nature rendered 
us close and intimate companions. His successful poems 
have received their due meed of praise, and his personal 
amiable qualities gained. the affection of all who knew him ; 
but Chamisso in his quality of a Botanist, has never obtained 
the credit which he deserves, and upon me, therefore, does 
the pleasing though mournful office devolve of recording his 
value, in these pagest which he assisted to originate and to 
* In the Enumeration of collections, p. 424, Colonel Sykes's have, by 
mistake, been stated to be from the Punjaub instead of the Deccan, — — 
+ “ Linnea, Ein Journal für die Botanik," 
