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72. I would also bring under his Excellency's favourable notice the 

 excellent conduct of Charles Dean, Robert Bowman, and John Melville, 

 who accompanied me from the Victoria to Moreton Bay, and whose 

 constant attention to their several duties, and their cheerfulness under 

 privations of no ordinary nature, merit the highest commendation. 



73. I am now preparing a map of the route of the Expedition from 

 the Victoria River towards Moreton Bay, and will transmit the same 

 on its completion. 



74. All the documents relative to the Expedition, previous to the 

 21st of June last, are now on board the 'Messenger/ which vessel was 

 employed on the service of the Expedition after the c Tom Tough ! be- 

 came unfit for further service ; and I daily expect her arrival in Sydney, 

 with the remainder of the party in charge of Mr. Baines. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient Servant, 



A. C. Gregory, 



Commanding N. A. Expedition. 



On three neio Indian Scrophularine^e; by J. D. Hooker, M.D.,F,R.S., 



and T. Thomson, M.D., F.R.S. (Tab. VII. and VIII.) 



During the arrangement of the Indian Scrophularinete with those in 



the Hookerian Herbarium, in which operation I enjoyed the advantage 



of Mr. Bentham's supervision, that gentleman pointed out several of 



the species as being well worthy of illustration, and amongst them the 



three now to be described are, on all accounts, perhaps the most remark- 

 able. 



In the whole collection, which includes almost every previously 

 described or noticed Indian plant of the Order, there are about 250 

 species, including Orohanche and its allies ; and, except in the genus 

 Pedicularis, there is indeed very little novelty. A fine subalpine 

 BoschniaMa {B. Himalaica, H.f. et T.), previously found by Messrs. 

 Strachey and Winterbottom, is a curious additional instance to the 

 several known of the extension of an American genus into Central 

 Asia ; and there are some interesting plants amongst the Veronica and 

 Scrophularia , but the majority of Indian Scrophulariacete are annual 

 weeds of very common forms and widely extended distribution. 



J. D. U. 



