MR. RBEVE'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 3 



7. 



Filices Exotica ; 



Or, Century of Exotic Ferns, particularly of such as are most deserving of 

 Cultivation. By Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., D.C.L. 100 coloured plates. 

 Royal 4to, price £6. 11,?. 



A magnificently illustrated work on Greenhouse Ferns. 



The Victoria Regia. 



By Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. With four coloured plates by W. Fitch. 

 Elephant folio, price 21s. coloured. 



It is now fifty years, as far as our researches enable us to ascertain, since this truly royal 

 plant was first detected. The honour of its original dfscovery is due to Hsenke under cir- 

 cumstances recorded as follows by M. A. D'Orbigny : — " When I was travelling," says this 

 latter gentleman, "in Central America, in the country of the wild Guarayos, who are a 

 tribe of Guaranis or Caribs, I made acquaintance with Father La Cueva, a Spanish mis- 

 sionary. In one of our interviews he happened to mention the famous botanist Hsenke, 

 who had been sent by the Spanish Government in the year 1801 to investigate the vegetable 

 productions of Peru, and the fruit of whose labours has been unfortunately lost to science. 

 Father La Cueva and Hsenke were together in a pirogue upon the Rio Mamor£, one of the 

 great tributaries of the Amazon River, when they discovered in the marshes, by the side of 

 the stream, a flower which was so surpassingly beautiful and extraordinary, that Hsenke, in 

 a transport of admiration, fell on his knees and expressed aloud his sense of the power and 

 magnificence of the Creator in His works. They halted, and even encamped purposely 

 near the spot, and quitted it with much reluctance." 



The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya ; 



Being an Account of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Moun- 

 tains of Eastern Himalaya. By J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. With 30 

 plates by W. Fitch. 



Imperial folio, price £3. 16*. coloured. 



10. 



Illustrations of Sikkim- Himalayan Plants, 



Chiefly selected from Drawings made in Sikkim under the superintendence 

 of the late J. F. Cathcart, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. The Botanical 

 Descriptions and Analyses by J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. With 24 

 coloured plates and an illuminated title-page by W. Fitch. 

 Folio, price £5. 5*. coloured. 



