178 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
called ** Estrellas" by the natives (A. hepaticifolia, nob. mst.), 
some new Berberides, 2 new Azare, Lardizabala trifoliata, 
hitherto considered only a native of Peru, Crinodendron 
Patigua, Eueryphia cordifolia, Cav., a new Tropeolum (T. 
Bridgesii, nob. mst.), some new Eugenias, one or to new 
species of Escallonia, 2 Araliacee, 2 species of the curious and 
rare genus Misodendron ( M. microphyllum, Hook. and Arn. 
and M. punctulatum, DC.) a beautiful Desfontainesia, (proba- 
bly D. spinosa, Ruiz and Pavon) Quadria heterophylla, R. and 
P. (the famous Avellano of that part of Chili,) 2 Luzuriagas, 
the splendid Lapigeria, and another species, of this or a nearly 
allied genus (ZL. Hookeri, Bridges, mst.) ; several Ferns, (many 
of them, however, similar to those found by Mr. Cuming in 
Chiloe) &c. When our last letter left Valparaiso, (August 
27, 1833,) Mr. Bridges was on the eve of a journey to 
that range of the Andes which lies between Chili and Con- 
ception, where, we trust, he will have reaped an abundant 
harvest.. 
Mr. Bridges’ specimens, like Mr. Mathews’, are in general 
named, as far as his means will allow him to do so, the sta- 
tions correctly given, and they are most carefully preserved. 
We understand that besides dried specimens, he has sent 
numerous seeds and roots for cultivation, and he cannot have 
failed thus to introduce many new and highly interesting 
plants to our gardens, even more suited to cultivation in the 
open air than those of the warmer parts of Chili. 
On the opposite side of the vast continent of South 
America, on the Plata, the Parana, and Uraguay, an unas- 
suming, but most indefatigable Botanist, Mr. Tweedie, has 
long been diligently engaged in collecting the vegetable pro- 
ductions, as we have announced in the former Numbers of 
this Journal. He has since extended his researches to 
St. Catharine in S. Brazil, chiefly in company with his 
Excellency H. S. Fox, Esq, British Envoy at Rio Janeiro, 
From Buenos Ayres, these naturalists sailed about 60 miles 
up the Rio Uraguay, and thence returned along the coast 
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