MARTIUS ON THE BOTANY OF BllAZlL. 21 



spring of 1817. For the botanical department were appoint- 

 ed Professor Milcan of Prague, Dr Pohl, (who died in 1834,) 

 Mr Henry Schott, now inspector of the imperial Botanic 

 Garden of Schonbrun, and Mr Ruchberger, Botanic Painter, 

 who lost his life in Brazil by being thrown from his horse. 

 Milcan, during his short residence of one year, paid particular 

 attention to the Flora of the environs of Rio, and afterwards 

 journeyed along the coast to Cabo Frio. In his magnificent 

 Delectus FlvrcB et Fnuncs Brasiliensis he has given to the 

 public some of his discoveries. Mr Schott, who is no less an 

 able botanist and draughtsman than he is a cultivator, was 

 however directed chiefly to confine himself to the neighbour- 

 hood of Rio, and send living plants to the Imperial Garden 

 at Vienna. Nevertheless he made several excursions from 

 Rio to the Campos on the Paraiba and Paraibuna Rivers, 

 through the district of Canta Gallo and to Macucu. He was 

 afterwards assisted in his labours by the gardener, Schucht. 

 A very choice herbarium of many thousand rare and inter- 

 esting plants was the fruit of these labours. Dr Pohl under- 

 took a much more extended journey. After having visited 

 the country southerly from Rio to S. Marcos, and northerly 

 as far as the Paraiba River, he went by Barbacena to the 

 Minas country, to Villa Rica, Villa do Principe (passed the 

 Diamond district which was then closed against him,) to the 

 Rio Grande de Belmonte. He then turned westerly to 

 Goyaz, and descended the Rio Maranhano, the principal 

 eastern branch of the^ Tocantins, to the eighth degree of 

 S. latitude. From Porto Real his route led him back to Villa 

 Boa, and from thence he arrived again at Rio de Janeiro 

 about the end of 1821. 



The results of the labours of the Austrian travellers in 

 Brazil, and their Narrative have been published, partly in a 

 separate work, and partly in Pohl's Travels in the Brazils, 

 Vienna, 1831. How much this indefatigable traveller has 

 done for the Flora of Brazil, may be inferred from the great 

 work, " Plantariim BrasilicB Icones et Descriptiones hactenua 

 hicditce. Vindob. 2 vols.fol. ISST, 1831." Many of the Ftius 



