MR. REEVE'S LIST OP PUBLICATIONS. 



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*. 



The most magnificently illustrated work on Foreign Greenhouse Ferns that has yet 

 appeared. 



8. 



The Victoria Regia. 



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

 Elephant folio, price 21$. 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 discovery 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 Mamore", 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 Haenke, 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." 



9. 



Illustrations of SilcJeim- 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. 



The principal object of this work is, by the publication of a series of Botanical Drawings, 

 executed in the very highest style of art, to introduce to the notice of the public a selection 

 of Sikkim- Himalayan Plants, which from their beauty, novelty, and interest, are eminently 

 worthy of cultivation in England ; and at the same time to record the great services ren- 

 dered to Himalayan botany by the late J. F. Cathcart, Esq., Judge in the Bengal Civil Ser- 

 vice. Attracted by the publication of the ' Sikkim Rhododendrons,' Mr. Cathcart visited 

 Darjiling, in the Himalaya, in 1849-50, with the view of furthering Botanical Science by 

 employing artists, at his own expense, in delineating the magnificent plants of those moun- 

 tains. During his residence there several artists were kept constantly at work under Mr. 

 Cathcart's and Dr. Hooker's superintendence, and coloured drawings of nearly a thousand 

 plants were made. This invaluable collection has been presented to the Museum of the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew. 



