BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 199 
* On my return to Crato, I again made several excursions 
in its vicinity, and picked up a few more rarities; the whole 
of which, together with those from Jardin, amounting to 
120 species, I have packed up in readiness to send them off. 
The rains having now set in, sufficiently to afford grass and 
water for the journey, I start for Oeiras the day after to- 
morrow, and expect to reach it in about eighteen days, as I 
shall make no delays on the road. There it is my intention 
to remain till the rains are over, probably in the month of 
May, and thence proceed to the mountains, to the east of 
the. Tocantins, where I hope to botanize for three or four 
months at least: then I proceed to the Rio Tocantins, and 
descend it to Pará, which, if all is well, I shall reach before 
. this time next year. But respecting all this, you shall learn 
more when I have the pleasure of writing to you from Oeiras. 
The plant I sent in my last collection under the name of 
nothera Brasiliensis, is not an GEnothera, but a Jussieua— 
à worse mistake this, than that of the gentleman who sent you 
Parnassia palustris for a new Hypericum. The pods on the 
top of the box belong to the Hymenea, of which there are 
specimens in the collection. 
** I have sustained a severe loss in the decease of that close 
and valued companion, my watch ! it stopped about a month 
ago, and I am not physician enough to set it going again. 
! | * G. GARDNER.” 
The 120 species above mentioned, collected partly at Crato, 
and partly at Barra do Jardin, were brought by the same 
vessel that conveyed the letter from Pará, and are forwarded 
to Mr Pamplin for distribution. They will be found to 
occupy a hiatus in the numbers already distributed, from 
1913 to 2033,* inclusive. Unfortunately, from the long 
detention of the boxes at Pará, the insects had commenced 
their work of destruction, from which all the other collections — 
had been so peculiarly exempted ; but the greater number n =: 
* The total number actually arrived in this country is 2468. — 
