f>2 Information respecting Botanical Travellei % s. 



us in several botanizing parties to the Highlands of Perthshire, and 

 who has paid much attention to the natural history of Brazil. Dr. 

 Loudon assured Mr. Gardner that he thought there would be no 

 difficulty in exploring the interior of the province, by making some 

 cotton or sugar plantation his head-quarters : he offered him all the 

 assistance in his power. As soon as Mr. Gardner should have col- 

 lected two hundred species, he intended to despatch them home, so 

 that we may soon look for specimens from him. 



I may here remark that Mr. Gardner's extensive harvest of Organ 

 Mountain plants have reached London, where such parcels as are ad- 

 dressed to the English and continental subscribers will be taken out by 

 Mr. Hunneman: the rest will be forwarded without delay to Glasgow. 



Since the above was written we have had the pleasure of receiving 

 Mr. Gardner's collection of Organ Mountain plants, which will be 

 distributed to the different subscribers with as little delay as pos- 

 sible. It is, as we anticipated, extremely rich in rare and novel spe- 

 cies, remarkably well preserved. The number of the fullest sets ex- 

 tends from 301 to 735 phsenogamous plants, together with a very 

 fine collection of Ferns, and some good Mosses (which latter are not 

 distributed). Little, comparatively, as is the distance between Rio 

 and the Organ Mountains, yet, on account of the elevation, the vege- 

 tation of the latter is considerably different from that of the former 

 place. Among the genera we find two of Clematis, a magnificent 

 Talauma, two singular species of Viola (one V. balsaminoides, Gardn. 

 MS.), a Qualea, a Platanthera (ciliosa, Mart.), a Chorisia (speciosa, 

 St. Hil.), several Clusics, or perhaps Schmeiggerice, St. Hil., Noran- 

 tea {Brasilicnsis) , a Trigonia, some fine Sapindacece, a Stematosiphon, 

 Pohl ; Ilex Paraguensis (!) ; several Casearics ; numerous Leguminosce, 

 especially Cassia ; a Rubus, Cerasus, Fuchsia, many exceedingly beau- 

 tiful Melastomacece and Myrtacea ; four Passion-flowers, one with an 

 unusually large and handsome blossom ; Cereus truncatus, and a new 

 species (C. Russellianus , Gardn. MS.) ; Hydrocotyle macrophylla , 

 Pohl ; an Eryngium, four Loranthece, several Rubiacece, two Valerians, 

 some very handsome Lobelia and Gesneriacece, a Gaultheria, a Vac- 

 cinium and Andromeda, numerous and very fine Composite, particu- 

 larly a Baccharis with large coriaceous cuneate leaves (perhaps B. pla- 

 typoda, Dl.), and a Mutisa, Cybianthus {cuneifolius, Mart.), some 

 Asclepiadece and Apocynece, a noble Lisianthus, Talbachia (among Gen- 

 tianece), and a magnificent Prepusa (of the same family, very differ- 

 ent from the P. moatana, Mart. Nov. Gen. t. 190.), P. connata, Gardn. 

 MS. ; several Solanece ; Franciscea, two species, (one of them the very 

 handsome and little-known F. hydrangece.formis, Pohl) ; two Virgu- 



