MARTIUS ON THE BOTANY OF BIIAZIL. 19 



districts, over which he travelled for a period of sixteen months. 

 A second, was from Rio to the province of Espiritu Santo, and 

 the Rio Doce. A third, of greater extent, was over S. Joam 

 del Rey, and the Serra Negra to Paracatu, in the western 

 district of the province of Minas; then to the Villa Booj 

 the capital of Goyaz, and to the Rio Claro. From thence 

 the traveller returned through the open Campos of St Paulo, 

 and into the south to Curitiba and Porto Alegro. A year 

 was almost wholly devoted in going hence and travelling over 

 the Missions of Paraguay and the Banda Orientale, whence he 

 took ship with his collections for Rio. Great and various are 

 the results of these journeys, and there is nothing to be wished 

 but that St Hilaire's health may allow of his completing the 

 publication of his labours. The following are the memoirs 

 in which M. de St Hilaire has inserted his numerous descrip- 

 tions of plants and his important geographical remarks, and 

 those on medical, oeconomical, and technical botany : " Flora 

 Brasilice Meridionalis," 2 vols, and 3 Fasciculi, Paris, 1825- 

 1832. From the twentieth Fasciculus M. de St Hilaire has 

 enjoyed the able assistance of M. Adrien de Jussieu, and 

 Cambessedes — 2. " Histoire des Plantes les plus remarquables 

 du Bresil et du Faraguay^* vol. 1. Paris, 1824. — 3. ^^ Plantes 

 Usuelles des Bresiliens," Paris, 1824. — 4. " Voyage dans les 

 Provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de Minas Geraes," vol. 1, 2. 

 Paris, 1830-8. — 5. " Voyage dans le district des diamans el 



mr le littoral du Bresil," vol. 1, 2. Paris, 1833-8 6. 



" Tableau de la Vegetation primitive dans la Province de 

 Minas Geraes," in the Annales des Sciences Natur. vol. 24. 



p. 64. &c 7. A brief account of their journey is also given 



in the " Bulletins de la Societe Philomatique," 1823-1826.— 

 The plants of M. de St Hilaire will be found as far as they 

 have been described in the general herbarium of the Jardin 

 des Plantes at Paris. 



Nearly at the same time with M. de St Hilaire, his High- 

 ness Prince Maximilian Von Neuweid visited Rio, and after- 

 wards published his travels; in the appendix to which several 

 of the more interesting plants were mentioned by Professor 



