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as soon as he will have had leisure to copy out his notes. In 
the mean time, extracts from his letters more especially 
bearing upon his collections for cultivation are given in the 
supplementary matter to the * Botanical Magazine." 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. GanpwEn, dated Royal 
Gardens, Peradenia, Ceylon, September 13, 1846. 
* My last letter to you was very short, being hur- 
riedly written, amid the confusion of preparations for my 
visit to the northern parts of the island, and I have had 
no leisure since. You will be glad to know that the 
trip was a most interesting one to me, and in every res- 
pect very pleasant. Our party was not large, consisting 
of the Bishop and his lady, the Chief Justice and his 
lady, with whom I went as a guest, and the Queen's Advocate, 
Mr. Buller, a brother to the present Judge Advocate. On 
the evening of the second day after we left Kandy, we 
arrived at Point Pedro, the northernmost point of the 
island, and thence proceeded by coach about 21 miles to 
Jaffna, the old Jaffnapatam. There the Court sat three 
«weeks, which afforded me time for considerable botanical 
collections. Besides numerous shorter excursions, I made 
one upwards of 60 miles into the interior, which occupied _ 
ten days, and was most successful The country is flat 
and sandy, reminding me much of the Pernambuco and 
Ceara Country, the resemblance being increased by the - 
forests of Borassus flabelliformis, which take the place of the _ 
Carnahyba palm of Brazil Thorny Acacias are abundant, - 
and some fine Cassias. I was quite delighted to find Azima © 
tetracantha in the greatest plenty, as well as Salvadora Per- — 
sica, the true Mustard-tree of Scripture. I do not believe a 
that either here or at the other places visited I have picked "S 
up much that is new, but I have added several hundred d 
of Malabar and Coromandel plants to the Ceylon Flora. — 
