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it of your protra6led indisposition. I hope this will find 

 you perfe£lly restored ; I had fully intended to have 

 written to you early in last month, but from numerous 

 pressing engagements I was unable to do so, but being 

 however at length a little relieved I shall proceed to 

 answer your letter in the best manner in my power. 

 The cargo forwarded from the Cuyuni River reached us 

 in good condition. A few species only were damaged, 

 I presume from the splashing of the sea water, this how- 

 ever did not signify much, as most of the kinds had been 

 sent before, except an Oncidium with flattish, ovate, 

 sharp-edged bulbs ; this I think will probably turn out 

 new and handsome, but there is no appearance of flowers 

 at present ; some of the others I consider valuable, but 

 as they have not yet flowered I cannot say more about 

 them. I have told His Grace the Duke of DEVONSHIRE of 

 your intention to colle6l for the New Store this season ; 

 he is willing for you to draw to the amount of (blank.) 

 The following is a list of the named kinds that have 

 been sent here from Demerara, but there is a few others 

 that have not yet flowered which may prove good : 

 Acropera Loddigesii, Batemania Colleyi, Bifrenaria auran- 

 tiaca, Gongora, many ^ood varieties, Coryanthes spe- 

 ciosa, Epidendrum no^urnum, Ep. no6lurnum var. 

 latifolium, Ep. hymetrophyllum (imatophyllum), Ep. 

 fragrans, Isochilus lineare, Maxillaria cristata, Myan- 

 thus barbatus, Ornithidium album, Oncidium Lancea- 

 nuni, Rodriguezia secunda, Stanhopea grandiflora, Tri- 

 gonidium obtusum. All named above have flowered 

 here except O. Lanceanum ; those written in red ink* 

 are the most showy and handsome, any quantity of the 



* Those in italics, 



