The beautiful * pocket volume” of spe- 
-cimens of British Mosses, by Mr. Gardener, 
announced at p. 20 of this Journal, will be 
published in a few days. By the kind as- 
sistance of his Muscological friends, and 
especially of J. E. Bowman, Esq. of Gres- 
ford, he is enabled to make the sets more 
complete than he had originally anticipated. 
Almost immediately after the publication 
of this work, it is the intention of this zea- 
lous Naturalist to embark for South Ame- 
. rica, and to spend some years in collecting 
plants in various parts of Brazil. The 
_ dried specimens will be offered at the price 
.. of £2 the hundred species: and seeds and 
. living plants on proportionably moderate 
terms. Pernambuco will, probably, be his 
first place of destination. It is gratifying 
like that of the northern half of that im- 
mense continent, will be accurately i inves- 
he ridges, Mathews; Mendoza 
; by babes; Peru by Mathews and Cruck- 
1 ; Colombia (in part) by Professor 
- aa and the late lamented Col. Hall; 
the Argentine Provinces, the Uraguay, 
Tucuman, and South Brazil by Tweedie ; 
Guiana by Mr Parker and Dr. Schom- 
} E PN 
The following extract of a letter from 
the last-mentioned enterprizing traveller to 
George Bentham, Esq. may not be unac- 
ceptable to our readers :— 
Anna-y, 3° 52’ N. lat. 59» W. long. 
Nov. 1, 1835. 
** Though I can announce the safe arrival 
of our expedition at the left bank of the 
Rupununy, I am sorry to say that all of us 
feel, more or less, the consequence of fa- 
_ tigue and exposures; fever and dysentery 
are the prevaling diseases, however, in no 
case to a dangerous degree, though my 
own servant insists upon returning with 
| people whom I hired at the port, hay- 
become alarmed at his own indisposi- 
and the accounts of tigers, rattle- 
&c. the latter of which have paid 
visits since we took possession 
c our Indian ht. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
to think that the Botany of South America, 
I have collected about two thousand 
plants while en route, and our camp on t] 
Savannahs, at the foot of an extensive 
mountain-chain, offers me a rich field f 
my collection. Lieut. Haining, who 
people returning to the port as sufficiently 
weak, in consequence of fever and ague, - 
as to be incompetent to finishing the papers 
connected with them. - 
Next spring you may expect with cer- 
tainty the first collection of plants, with 
every prospect of their being numerous. 
R. H. SCHOMBURGH 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN 
BOTANY 
By Dr. Wight & G. A. W. Arnott, Esq. 
( Continued from p. 161 ). 
CARISSA CARANDAS. 
Tas. XII. 
Sub-arborescens spinosa, glaberrima, | 
nis simplicibus vel in ramulos ve 
tiores bifurcatis, foliis ellipticis obt 
integerrimis nitidis reticulato-venosis, 
. pedunculis corymbosis paucifloris : 
minalibus, ovario biloculari 8-ovulato. — 
Carissa Carandas. Linn. Mant.p.52. Wi 
Sp. PL 1. p. 1219. Spr. Syst. Veg. 
p.071. Roxb. Cor. PI 1. t. 77.5; Fl: 
1. p. 687. ; (ed. Car. et Wall.) 2. p. 
Wall. List, n. 1677. 
Lycium Malabaricum, las Pluk. Phyt. 
235. t. 305. f. 4. : 
Carandas. Rumph. Amb. 7. p. 57.4 
A large Shrub, becoming, she 
, irregularly-shaped tree. 
