200 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
species being hard-leaved plants, the mischief has been very | 
limited, confined to a few Composite, and some other delicate- 
leaved plants; and of these, scarcely a particle of the foliage 
remains. 
(While the present No. of our Journal is in the press, the packet from. 
Rio has brought us a most interesting letter from Villa da Natividade, - 
Province of Goyaz, dated Nov. 3, 1839 :—from which it will be seen how 
steadily Mr Gardner is following up his plans, mentioned in his July letter - 
from Oeiras, as given by us at p. 37 of this volume ; and we trust, and in- 
deed cannot doubt, that additional subscribers to these splendid collections 
of plants from the interior of Brazil will come forward to patronize this. 
well-educated man of science, who in the most disinterested manner, peril — : 
his health and his life for the sole purpose of furthering the cause of that - 
branch of natural history, to which he is so devotedly attached.) 
ViLLA DA NarmivipApE, Province oF GoYAz, - 
Nov. 3, 1839. d 
* My Dear Sir,—My last letter to you, together with the —— 
collections accompanying it, which were despatched from 
the city of Oeiras for Pernambuco, early in June last, have, I 5 
sincerely trust, long ere now reached Glasgow in the same - 
excellent condition in which they left me. Since then I have - 
'accomplished a long journey, and got together what I consider | 
to be by very far the most splendid collection that I have Yt — 
made in Brazil. In my last letters, I took the opportunity of 1 
informing you that, owing to the unsettled and revolutionary — 
state of the Province of Maranham, through which my route - 
must have lain, I was compelled torelinquish the plan for gomg - 
to Pará, and that my intention was to proceed up throug! 
central Brazil to Rio de Janeiro. For the fulfilment of this 
determination, I left Oeiras on the 22d of July, and journey- - 
ing southwards, reached, on the 20th of August, the smat 
Villa of Paranagoa, situated at the southern extremity of the 3 
Province of Piauhy. Although the season was far advance 
when I made this journey, I collected: 200 species, not a few 
of which will prove to be new. Among them is an unde- 
scribed Cabomba, the floating leaves of which, like those of 
