COLLECTOR TO BRAZIL. 



CII.— MISSION OF COLLECTOR TO BEAZIL. 

 The following letter has been received from Mr, Weir, 



Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 7, 1861. 

 Sir, — ^Mr. Fry will dispatch by this month's packet a small box containing 



lumerous, as I have seen but few plants in flower which were at all likely 

 io be fit for cultivation in England, except such things as are already in 



ire fewer plants in flower than in any other four months of the year ; but had 

 ,he making a botanical collection been my object, I could have collected a 

 nuch greater number of species, the greater part of them however would have 



The weather during the last month has been i 



too I have been somewhat later in i • " " "' "^ 

 I wrote last month. I leave Rio fi 



r I have drawn from Messrs. Fry & Co., and t 

 Lo this date, are enclosed in the box. 



To the Secretary of thk Royal Horticulttjral 

 Society. 



List of plants and seeds forwarded to the Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London, by R. M. Packet leaving Rio de Janeiro on the 9th of October, 1861. 



1. A few plants of a Cattleya, No. 62, from forest near Belem. I intended 

 to have sent more of this, but having recently seen the flower I think it 



colour, the lip white, with elevated purple ridges inside. It grows on 



2. A number of tubers of a small plant (labelled P. 13) from the wood near 

 Belem, and in the Serra. It throws up a slender stem from the tuber 

 which rises a few inches above the ground, bearing a few heart-shaped 

 leaves beautifully marbled with silver grey, dark and pale green on 

 the upper side, pui-ple beneath. I have never seen the flower. 



3. A number of plants of No. 40. 



4. Oneplant, No. 56, an orchid with spikes of small lilac flowers (Burling- 



5. One plant of No. 58, an orchid with spikes of yellow flowers spotted with 



6. A few bulbs of an Amaryms,_ No. 48 ; the flowers are orange, the sepals 



