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sent to the Royal Academy of Lisbon ; when he was finally re- 

 called to his native land, he took many others with him, and 

 added to the number by collections in Cambodia, Bengal and 

 Malal)ar, and spent three months on the island of Mozam- 

 h'u{ue. After his return, he devoted himself to the prepar,a- 

 tion of his Flora Cochinchinensis, which appeared at Lisbon 

 under the auspices of the Royal academy in 1790. This in- 

 cluded descriptions not only of the plants of Cochin-China, 

 but of the other couneries which he had visited, and was pro- 

 vided with keys for use as a manual. It was well received, 

 and a second edition was brought out by Willdenow at Berlin 

 in 1793. 



Loureiro published a number of shorter botanical works, 

 among them a treatise on cotton, another on cubeb, still an- 

 other on "Transplanting LTseful Trees from Remote Coun- 

 tries" {La Trasplantacion de los Arboles Utiles de Paises Re- 

 motos), and at the time of his death in 1796 was engaged on 

 a "Natural and Civil History of Cochin-China," with maps 

 and astronomical observations. 



His herbarium remained in the possession of the Royal 

 Academy at Lisbon, but a large part of it has since been 

 transferred to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, and 

 some specimens even to the British Museum. 



Since the region of his botanical activity lies on the op- 

 posite side of the globe, we could hardly expect to find his 

 name connected with our North American flora. No speecies 

 established by him appear in Gray's Manual (7th edition), 

 Chapman's Flora of the Southern States (3rd edition). Coul- 

 ter and Nelson's New Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany, or 

 Howell's Flora of Northwest America. But in 1 lillebrand's 

 Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (1888), two genera are repre- 

 sented which were established by Loureiro: Argyreia (Con- 

 volvulaceae), an East Indian genus of twenty-four species, of 

 which A. tiliaefolia Wight has found its way to the Islands, 

 probably as an escape from early cultivation; and Masai 



