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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
UNIO ITINERARIA. 
We are anxious to lay before our rea- 
ders the following brief particulars respect- 
ing the collections of the Unio Itineraria, 
which have just been communicated to 
us by our valued friend John Hunneman, 
Esq., who has kindly undertaken to act as 
Agent for that useful Society in this coun- 
try. Excellent as have been the plants of 
the former journeys of the collectors for 
this Institution, those that have recently 
been distributed from Arabia Feliz have 
far exceeded them in point of interest and 
value: and when it is seen that arrivals 
are expected from Abyssinia, we are sure 
that the Botanists generally, throughout 
Europe, will be anxious to possess them- 
selves of them. 
Dr. Steudel thus writes to Mr. Hunne- 
man. 
* Further supplies of Arabian plants 
have arrived, for which a similar subscrip- 
tion of £3 is to be paid; and as the col- 
lection is already in our possession, the 
Subscribers are not liable to any disap- 
pointment. A further subscription will be 
received for Abyssinian plants, the amount 
of which is to be £6. - 
* Subscriptions will also be received 
for New Holland specimens, of which 
there will be about thirty shares of two 
hundred species each, at the rate of £2 
per hundred, But although these are in : 
excellent condition, it is but fair to state, 
that they will not be so interesting to those 
individuals who possess Sieber’s collections 
from that country, since there is only about i 
a third part different from those of Sieber, 
“ Collections of specimens from Chili, 
some of two hundred and some of one 
hundred species, at £1 10s. per hundred, 
are also offered.” 
SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
FLORA INSULARUM NOVA 
LANDLE PRECURSOR; 
SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY 0) 
THE ISLANDS OF NEW Z 
LAND: 
Comprising, in a synoptical form, t 
country in 1826; 
found by the French Naturalists 
tached to the voyages of La Co 
and L’ Astrolabe, as indicated by the 
Island, in portions of the years 
and 1834 
(The whole arranged and edited by his 
Allan Cunningham, Esq.) 
GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. © 
Those isolated strips of land of the Sout: 
ern Pacific Ocean, originally designated 
by the discoverer of their northern 
(in honour of the States General) taaten 
Land, but long known since by the name 
of New Zealand, consist of three larger. r 
ands, which, viewed with the many con- 
archipelago. They were - dE 
the celebra Dutch A 
in the year 1642, by the Eu 
navigator, Abel Jansz Tasman, 
been dispatched by the Governo 
Council at Batavia, to prosecute disco 
ries in the then “almost unentered regions 
of the Southern Pacific.” As e 
prising spirit of that able seamen © 
