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to my father. There is also a collection of mosses, gathered in this 

 neighbourhood : the species are few in number, as the country is low, 

 but among them I think you will find a new Bryum, allied to B. ro- 

 seum, and an undescribed Hookeria, which seems to approach your 

 H. pallescens. Along with these articles I have sent a short me- 

 moir, which I lately drew up, on the establishment of the genus 

 Mouriria, Juss., as the type of a new natural order, with a few ob- 

 servations on one or two other genera. If you deem this paper worth 

 publishing in the Magazine it is very much at your service ; if not, 

 be kind enough to lay it aside for me, as I have not kept a copy. 



The collection now sent differs very materially from that which I 

 transmitted from the Organ mountains, in its paucity of Orchidece and 

 Ferns. If, however, it alFords you the same pleasure in examining 

 the plants that I derived from collecting them, it will not be small ; 

 a pleasure heightened to me by anticipating your gratification. I 

 will thank you to ascertain whether the beautiful leguminous shrub 

 which I have named in honour of my excellent friend J. E. Bowman, 

 Esq., does not belong, as I suspect, to a new genus. Some observa- 

 tions on the structure of the flower accompany my paper on the 

 genus Mouriria, and I am anxious that the facts should be ascer- 

 tained before Mr. Murray distributes the seeds, of which I have sent 

 him an abundant supply. I may also mention that the composite 

 plant (No. 1732), which I took to be a new genus when arranging 

 the collection, I have since found to be an undescribed species of 

 Ichthyothcre, Mart, {vide DeCand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 504.) 



Having told you thus much respecting the collections, I proceed 

 to give you some account of my journey from Ico hither, and of my 

 residence here. Having purchased two horses more than I had 

 brought with me from Aracaty, I started from Ico at half-past seven 

 in the morning of the 4th of September, and after a journey of six 

 days arrived here. The distance is 30 leagues, or somewhat more 

 than 100 miles, and the country through which I passed differs re- 

 markably from that which lies between Aracaty and Ico, both in the 

 nature of its surface and its vegetation. The former is of a hilly un- 

 dulating character, exhibiting none of those large plains which are 

 seen further down, but on the contrary it is all wooded with small 

 trees and shrubs, nearly the whole of which are deciduous. As it 

 was the beginning of the dry season when I started from Ico on my 

 way hither, there was scarcely a leaf to be seen; a circumstance which, 

 to a botanist particularly, makes a journey in such a country very 

 monotonous and uninteresting. The most abundant tree is that 

 which is called by the natives Arocira (^Schinus Arocira, of St. Hi- 



