GUILLERMO KALBREYER. 



COLLECTOE ON THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA AND COLOMBCA, 



S. AMERICA. 

 18761881. 



GUILLERMO KALBREYER, a promising young man, twenty-nine 

 years of age, entered Messrs. Veitchs' service as a plant- 

 collector in 1876, and his first trip was to the West Coast of 

 Africa in search of tropical flowering and foliage plants, very 

 popular at that time. 



Kalbreyer left Liverpool in November, arrived at Fernando 

 Po on Christmas Eve, and reached Victoria a week later. 



He proceeded to Old and New Calabar, Bonny, and the 

 Cameroon Mountains and River, collecting many plants, 

 sent to Chelsea. 



At that time travelling in Africa was difficult, and, owing 

 to the hostility of native traders, foreigners were unable to 

 penetrate far into the country. 



In July 1877 Kalbreyer returned to England, bringing 

 with him a small collection of plants obtained on the 

 West Coast, including five species of Mussaenda, Gardenia 

 Kalbreyeri, and two new Orchids: Brachycorythis Kal- 

 breyeri, a terrestrial species named by Reichenbach in 

 compliment to its discoverer, and Pachystoma Thomsoniami, 

 an epiphyte, named, at Kalbreyer's request, in honour of a 

 Rev. George Thomson, for many years an earnest missionary 

 in that unhealthy region. 



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