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K. & P. 



By C. MiCHENER. 



It is not difficult for me to remember back to the time 

 wlien I really wondered what the initials that head this note 

 signified. For I confess to a tendency even to leaving them 

 (in common with many, many others) entirely aside in the 

 consideration of the plant-names of which now they form a 

 part to me. Bowlesia lohaia R. & P. I had seen that 

 term often, but it was long before the E. & P. part of it 

 meant anything to me. But of late I have looked more closely 

 at this part of names, and their meaning has increased for me. 



And though, in the present case, the results I have to offer 

 are but meagre, yet I was glad to know them, and so I think 



others may be. 



On the 4th of November, 1777, there sailed from Spain a 



ship called " Peruano." It had been equipped by a king who 

 had much interest in botany and other sciences taken for 

 him by his advisors; and really Carlos III. of Spain was no 

 sparer either of men or money when it was a question of 

 obtaining information about his provinces. His provinces 

 that meant a goodly share of the unexplored world in those 

 days. And so this ship sailed, and it .contained among other 

 people some men called as follows: Hypolito Euiz, Joseph 

 Pavon — these Spanish botanists— and Joseph Dombey, 

 botanist to the King of France. And they took with them 

 skillful artists; for in those days each plant was carefully 

 drawn as it grew. I think the artists' names are worth 

 noting: Joseph Brunete and Isidro de Galvez. 



At that time a voyage to Peru meant something, for it was 

 not until the 8th of April, 1778, that they arrived at Callao. 



They spent eleven years in the country, going first to 

 Lima and the Province of Chancay, at Lurin, Surco, then 

 back to Lima, whence they sent to Spain three hundred 

 species of dried plants and two hundred and forty-two 

 drawings made from the living plants. The next excursion 

 was made to Tarma, where they separated, Dombey going to 

 Cheuchin and Pavon to Talca. Back to Lima again and then 



