38 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
which to deposit my dried specimens, but have to-day ob- 
tained a supply of old newspapers from a friend here. The 
pleasures of expeditions such as these are certainly great, but 
the vexatious difficulties which frequently arise, are enough 
to drive one mad. Owing to the brief period which has 
elapsed between my altered plans and Don Sarmiento’s de- 
parture, I have not yet been able to make an abstract of my 
journal to send you. I am truly glad that such an oppor- 
tunity has offered of despatching my collection to the coast, 
as owing to all communication being cut off between this dis- 
trict and Maranham, it is impossible to divine when they 
might otherwise have been forwarded; and I can feel no 
doubt about their now travelling in safety and good conditio : 
. Whenever an opportunity offers of sending to the coast, 
I shall write from time to time, during my journey from this 
place to Rio; but I fear that I must be long deprived of the 
satisfaction of hearing from Britain. | 
GEORGE GARDNER. 
IV.— Contributions towards a Flora of South America.— Enu- 
meration of Plants collected by Mn ScuomBunck in British 
Guiana. By G&oncr BENTHAM, Eso., F.L.S. 
Mr Scuomsurex in his later journeys into the interior « 
British Guiana, has added considerably to the catalogue of 
species already given in Taylor’s Annals of Nat. Hist. Vol. 
IL, &c. These it is desirable to incorporate with the former 
list, which will thus constitute a Flora of upwards of 140 
species collected by this distinguished naturalist and traveller 
amidst his numerous geographical and other important scien- 
tific occupations. 2 a 
SOCAR COMPOSITÆ. 
. TRIBE VERNONIACER, 
1. Sparganophorus Vaillanti, Gertn.— Benth. in Ann. N. 
Hist. II. p. 107.— Bank of the Courantine and Currasawaak 
Schomburgk, n. 154 and 206. x s 
