20 MARTIUS ON THE BOTANY OF BRAZIL. 



Schrader and Nees Von Esenbeck redundant. Others, 

 from the pen of Schrader, have lippeared in the " Gottingen 

 Gelehrten Jnzeig," 1824-1828: while again, in conjunction 

 with Dr Von Martius, Nees Von Esenbeck published several 

 treatises on these plants in the " ^ov. Act. Acad. Cces. Nat. 

 Ciir.;' for example — I. ^^ Beitrag zur Flora Brazil^" Nov. 



Act., vol. 2. and 12 2. " Gothea, novum Genus," vol. 2. — 



3. Fraxinella;, Plantarum familia natwalis definita, ^c.'' vol. 

 11. — \. ^^ Zollernia, nov. Gen." vol. 13. — ^^ llorrischuchia," 

 by Nees Von Esenbeck, appeared in the memoirs of the Ra- 

 tisbon Society, 1822. The remainder of his collections were 

 presented to Von Martius, who will incorporate them with his 

 FJora. 



In 1815 and 1816, two English collectors, Messrs Cun- 

 ningham and Bowie, were sent by the Royal Gardens of 

 Kew, where many of the plants discovered by them are still 

 living, and where is, moreover, preserved, a considerable her- 

 barium which they formed in Brazil. Both these travel- 

 lers left the Brazils from St Paulo; the one, Mr Bowie, for 

 the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, where he sank from 

 the fatigues of his journey;* the other, Mr Allan Cunning- 

 ham, for New Holland, where he spent many years in inves- 

 tigating the interior ; and after visiting New Zealand and 

 Norfolk Island, returned to England. Again he went the 

 second time to Port Jackson, as Colonial Botanist, to supply 

 the place of his brother (Richard), who had been killed by 

 the natives. (We have now to lament the death of Allan, 

 from the effect of fatigue and illness, during a second visit to 

 New Zealand.) 



The marriage of the Crown Prince Don Pedro, afterwards 

 Emperor of the Brazils, with her Imperial Highness the 

 Archduchess Leopoldine of Austria, gave rise to the expedi- 

 tion of the Austrian Naturalists, which Dr Von Martius, and 

 Dr Von Spix accompanied, and which left Europe in the 



* Our author lias in this particular been misinformed. Bowie was lately, 

 and we believe is still, in charge of Baron Ludwig's interesting Botanic 

 Garden, near Cape ToMn, Cajic of Good Hope.— Ed. 



