Z REPOTIT OF M. GUILLEMIN. 



and final departure, I collected all the information in my 

 power respecting the cultivation, preparation, and trade in 

 Tea, as pursued in different parts of the world. M. Gaudi- 

 chaud, who had visited most of the Tea countries, kindly gave 

 me much advice, and so did the different Professors of the 

 Museum, M. Brongniart and M. le Baron de Lessert, to 

 the latter of whom I am indebted for letters of credit on his 

 Brazilian correspondents. I also carefully collected the do- 

 cuments published by Dr Wallich of Calcutta on the Assam 

 and Javanese Tea. 



With the hope of gaining useful commercial and scientific 

 information on the different valuable articles of Brazilian ex- 

 port, I obtained from M. Guibourt, Professor at the School of 

 Pharmacy, a sheet full of questions respecting the woods used 

 for building, for cabinet-work, and dyeing, the gums, resins, 

 and balsams, Sec. which are only known to us under their 

 vernacular, and often barbarous appellations. Mr Ward's 

 new plan for transporting living plants on board ship having 

 been already tried with success by Dr Wallich, I procured 

 from Brest one of these air-tight chests, sent by Dr W. and 

 filled it with twenty-four of the finest varieties of Camellia, 

 intending to make presents of these charming shrubs to those 

 Bi-azilian individuals who should most facilitate the objects 

 of my mission; and having sailed late in August, 1838, I 

 reached Rio Janeiro after a passage of fifty-three days. 



M. le Baron Rouen, French Minister Plenipotentiary, to 

 whom I delivered. Sir, your official letters, confirmed what 

 M. Gaudichaud had told me, and urged me to visit the 

 Botanic Garden established near the Lake Freytas, and 

 superintended by Dr Bernardo Jose de Serpa Brandao. To 

 this gentleman I presented a portion of my Camellias, in 

 acknowledgment of his kindness, and I only regretted that I 

 had not brought any botanical or horticultural books, which 

 I think he would have prized still more highly. Those of 

 my Camellias which remained were sent to the Imperial 

 Garden of St Christopher. M. de Serpa Brandao urged 

 me to visit him frequently, and promised me every informa- 



