222 thk .loniNAi, of Bonvi 



2. 'Venation of Cycas circinalu in a leaf cut Dec. 7th, 1847, 

 from a plant at Chatsworth." 



3. " Cycas revoluta, female, Chatsworth, 1846, N.B. The leaves 

 ill drawn. Scales immature." Unsigned, see 10. 



4. " Cycas revoluta, male ; Lauderdale Bouse, July, L866." 

 P. Justyne, not signed. 



5. "Two scales with fruit from the female Cycas revoluta which 

 flowered at Chatsworth, 1846. Richard Smith del. 



6. -'Cycas revoluta. Lauderdale House, July, L853 : half the 

 natural dimensions. " Signed " G. Scharf del," elephant folio. From 

 the plant described by Yates in Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 253. 



7. " Stangeria paradoxa, Lauderdale House, 1854: male plant, 

 with two cones, Eoyal Botanic Garden, Kew, 1853 : nut and seedling, 

 Kew, 1854." Signed " C. C. Sowerby," elephant folio. The artist 

 was doubtless a daughter of James Sowerby (1757- 1822), the well- 

 known botanical artist; the plates in Henderson's Illustrated 

 Bouquet (1857-64) are mostly by her, and are lettered "Miss 

 Sowerby del.": her name however appears as " C. C. Sowerby " on 

 plate 10, the first executed by her. 



8. " Cones of Dionedule, Lauderdale House, 1850 " Signed 

 " P. W. Justyne, 1850." 



9. " Zamia caffra, Nov. 1847. Chatsworth Conservatory.*" Pencil 

 drawing of whole plant : inscription probably by artist. 



10. " Encephalartus coffer, Chatsworth^ 18'47. N.B. The leaves 

 ill drawn : cone still immature." Unsigned : by the draughtsman 

 of 3. 



10a. " Leaf of Encephalartus coffer, half the natural size, from a 

 plant at Chatsworth, Deer. 1847." 



11. " Scales with fruit of the Encephalartus coffer which flowered 

 at Chatsworth a.d. 1848, drawn by RA Smith." £2 2.s\ is noted as 

 the price. 



12. " Leaflets of Encephalartus coffer: drawn by Sophia Yates. 

 Norton Hall, Derbyshire, September, 1847." 



13(1). " Zamia pungent;, Kew Gardens, 1839. Reduced to one 

 6th & pits natural size." Atlas folio. 



(2). " Cone of the Zamia puuqens, its natural size. Kew Gardens 

 1839." Atlas folio. 



Both inscribed " Mrs. Withers del*., Flower Painter in Ord- v to 

 Queen Adelaide." Drawings identical with these are also in the 

 Department. The former is referred to by Mr. J. Hooker in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4903 (1856), but not named : he refers to " a fine old 

 Encephalartus introduced by Masson .... of which an atlas-folio 

 figure was engraved from the pencil of Mrs. Withers, and published 

 under the name of i?. ptmgens." Sir David Prain kindly informs 

 me that nothing has been found at Kew to show that a drawing of 

 the plant by Mrs. Withers was ever engraved, but a letter from Yates 

 to Hooker refers to a drawing of the Kew specimen made in 1839 

 which was sent to Hooker and returned by him, and this is doubtless 

 the figure mentioned above. Mrs. Withers's drawings were exhibited 

 at the Linnean Society on Jan. 21. 1840 (see Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 52). 



13a. "Axis of a cone of Encephalartus puuqens, Oct. 27th. 

 L849. Chatsworth Conservatory" (pencil drawing). 



