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in the morning, accompanied by a young friend from the city, 

 who had come up to join me. On the first day we reached 

 the highest point to which I had formerly ascended, and then 

 we took up our quarters beneath the ledge of a rock, and we 

 continued to make use of it as a sleeping place for the three 

 following nights. During the four days which we remained 

 there, we made excursions in all directions ; and I have been 

 richly rewarded by the discovery of many fine things, both 

 for the herbarium, and to take home with me alive. The 

 highest summits I take to be 6857 feet above the level of 

 the sea, and on it I found another fine new species of Pre- 

 pusa, not so large as my P. connata, but still a most beauti- 

 ful plant. I am anxious that it should bear your name, and 

 have consequently called it Prepusa Hookeriana. I have 

 drawn up a description of it, and a young lady, who is re- 

 siding here at present, has made me a fine drawing of it, 

 both of which shall be sent to you by an early opportunity. 

 I have fine plants both of it and P. connata, to take home 

 alive with me, and as they seem to be very tenacious 

 of life, I have but little doubt of my being able to put them 

 into Mr Murray's hands for cultivation. I also found a 

 beautiful Escallonia, 3 sp. of Hypericum, a Lychnophora, a 

 Vellozia, a Barbacenia, a Rhopala, and a host of other plants, 

 different from those which I picked up on my former trips — 

 all of which I hope soon to have the pleasure of showing you 

 personally. Two days after I returned from this excursion, 

 I went down to Rio myself with my collection of living 

 plants, and had them planted. They filled three of the 

 boxes, and as there are still many plants here which I should 

 like to introduce, 1 have ordered other two to be made. I 

 have secured two fine plants of the Luxemburgia, of which I 

 formerly sent home only a single specimen. I have also 

 found fine specimens of it in fruit. 



" Previous to my leaving Rio, I arranged and packed up 

 all my collection of specimens from the province of Goyaz, 

 amounting in all to U02 species, and left them with Messrs 

 Harrison's people, to be sent to London by the first opportn- 



