BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
that his new work shall appear in the same 
form as the Flora Jave, adorned with 
plates of similar style, and printed in the 
same type. He has entrusted the execu- 
tion of the book to us, and it will be our 
ambition to render it equally worthy of 
public patronage as the Javanese Flora. 
“ This is the plan which the Author in- 
tends generally to follow in his new collec- 
tion, which he entitles RuwPH1A, from the 
name of the learned Rumph, the Dutch 
Resident at Amboyna. This title is a happy 
innovation, an homage offered to the me- 
mory of one of the most learned men in the 
seventeenth century, that true disciple of 
nature, who, without any other teacher, 
could describe and delineate so beautifully 
the plants of the Moluccas, and who, after 
having suddenly been deprived of sight at 
the early age of forty-three years, could 
still derive, by the aid of touch alone, and 
by the most energetic application of me- 
mory and intelligence, that information 
which gladdened the most important half 
of his career. The Rumphia will compre- 
hend all the rarer and most interesting 
plants of the Indian Archipelago, each 
being carefully delineated, from drawings 
made on the spot by a faithful and well- 
Skilled pencil, and followed by such de- 
scriptions as may be expected from the 
pen of M. Blume, accompanied by minute 
analysis, and by a physical and natural 
account, as detailed as the circumstances 
of our state of knowledge will enable us to 
Obtain, of its medicinal and useful pro- 
perties. 
“ The work is so arranged as to convey 
a full and extensive idea of a vegetation, 
Whose peculiarity must be eminently strik- 
ing to an eye long skilled in the observa- 
tion of our calm and regular climate. To 
attain this object, M. Blume has mingled 
his brilliant representations of plants with 
Beneral views of the vegetable productions 
of a country where this department of 
ure attains its greatest luxury and de- 
Yelopment. These drawings have been 
made on the spot, and will lose nothing 
3^ being rendered by M. Lauters well- 
. Practised lithographic crayon. 
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“ The“ extraordinary difficulties under 
which Professor Blume has laboured, while 
compiling the materials of this work, form 
a strong claim on the patronage of the 
scientific public, who will know how to 
prize the results of such learned and peril- 
ous researches.” 
C. G. Sulpke, Bookseller, Amsterdam. 
UNIO ITINERARIA, 
Our latest intelligence respecting the 
Unio Itineraria bears date the 10th of 
June, of the present year, 1835, and as- 
sures us that the collections that have been 
made by the Egyptian and Arabian tra- 
vellers at the island of Cephalonia, on the 
coast of which they suffered shipwreck, 
have been received, and will be distributed 
amongst those who subscribed to the Al- 
giers expedition, as a remuneration for the 
scanty produce it yielded: but as there 
are nearly one hundred specimens of each 
individual species, the remainder is to 
form an addition to the Egyptian and Ara- 
bian collections, if the subscribers to the 
latter agree to add ten shillings to the 
original amount of that subscription. 
According to the latest accounts, Mr. 
Schimper had left Cairo on the 2nd of 
March, 1834, with three men and sixteen 
camels, for Mount Sinai; reached Suez on 
the Sth, and arrived afterwards at El Tor, 
where the Arabian mountains commence. 
Dr. Wiest, the other traveller, remained 
at Cairo, entertaining, unfortunately, the 
idea of the plague not being contagious, 
and boldly attended the hospital, without 
being affected by the disease: but when 
on the point of starting for Gedda in Ara- 
bia Felix, he was seized with it, and it 
proved fatal to him. 
Two cases with Egyptian plants, besides 
Zoological objects, have been dispatched 
from thence in the latter part of last Fe- 
bruary, but are still undergoing the long 
quarantine of seventy days at Venice, 
where the Austrian Government has is- 
sued orders to pay the most careful atten- 
tion to the contents of these packages, so 
as to insure them against any damage. - 
