34 BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
and for Welwitsch’s Azores collections, at 60 florins. These will be valued: 3 
at the same rate as those of Abyssinia, namely, 15 florins (£1 11s. 6d. 
sterling,) the 100;species.)—E»p. 
MR GARDNER’S COLLECTIONS. 
(A press of original papers compels us to omit, in the present number, — 
much interesting miscellaneous botanical information with which we are 
provided, and which we shall reserve for our future pages. We must, - 
however, devote a little space to the most recent intelligence received 2 
from Mr Gardner. In the Annals of Nat. Hist. v. iii. page 327, are de- a 
tailed the particulars of his travels as far as Crato in the province of Ceara, —— 
where he arrived the end of the year 1838. His two last letters are from 
Oeiras, the capital of the province of Piauhy, a district which Dr Von 
Martius recommended to the investigations of our enthusiastic traveller, as 
likely to yield a richer harvest of novelty to the botanist, than almost any — 
other part of Brazil; and our expectations have not been disappointed. — 
The valuable collections both of Ceará and Piauhy are already safely — 
arrived, each consisting of upwards of 400 species, in the most perfect state — 
of preservation possible, and they are placed in the hands of Mr W. Pamplin, _ 
9, Queen Street, Soho, London, for the purpose of being distributed to the 
respective subscribers. "There will be a few sets remaining to be disposed of 2 
after this distribution, to be had by applying to Mr Pamplin. The wholeof - 
Mr Gardner's Brazilian collections now amounts to the number of 2468 
species. The following extracts from the two letters just alluded to, will 
give some idea of the difficulties Mr Gardner has to contend with, and of — 
. his great anxiety to further the cause of botany, by adventuring still further, _ 
into the provinces of Minas Geraes and Goyaz.)—Ep. 
Crrv or Ozas, (Carrrat or PiaUHY,) _ 
May 20, 1839. : 
I avail myself of an opportunity of sending letters from 
this place to Bahia, all communication being cut off, owing - 
to the state of the country between Oeiras and Maranham. 
You are already informed, that it was my intention to pro- 
ceed from hence to the Rio Tocantins, a tract of country - 
entirely unknown to the botanist, and then to descend by it 
to Para; but I am sorry to say it is somewhat doubtful if - 
-this plan can be carried into execution. About the time that 
I arrived in Oeiras, rumours were afloat that a band of rob- 
bers had Organized themselves in the neighbourhood of ` 
Cachias, a large and c gie villa situated on ne Rio 
