RECENT INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT 
OF THE UNIO ITINERARIA. 
“ We beg to announce to those Botan- 
ists who are interested in the success of 
the Unio-Itineraria, and who have contri- 
buted the sum of £6 for shares of Arabian 
and Egyptian plants, that they have re- 
ceived, on an average, about four hundred 
Species, collected partly in Lower Egypt, 
and partly in Arabia Petrea, Any sub- 
scriber, whose number falls short of that 
amount, will be supplied according to this 
announcement ; while each individual may, 
besides, have a supplementary share of 
about one hundred species, mostly consist- 
ing of such plants as have been gathered 
in Arabia Felix, and the distribution of 
which will take place in the spring of this 
immediately ensuing year (1837). Although 
the four hundred species, already sent out, 
contain much of rarity and interest, and 
even of novelty, viz. two new genera (No. 
402, labelled as a Bromus, and No. 244, 
Schimpera), yet the supplemental century, 
mentioned above, will include, proportion- 
ally, still scarcer plants, by which the sa- 
tisfaction of the subscribers, already most 
pleasingly stated by some, cannot fail to be 
increased. 
Hedshas, near Djedda, and in the environs 
of Mecca, during the interval from Nov. 
1835 to Feb. 1836, and amount to more 
than two hundred species, to which will be 
added some Egyptian ones, (a few only, 
and of the scarcer kinds,) gathered in the 
course of last summer in Upper Egypt, 
where the collector occupied himself chiefly 
with Zoology, and during the latter part of 
Those individuals, 
therefore who, besides the hundred supple- 
mentary species, may wish to receive an 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
additional century, consisting of the 
productions of Arabia Felix, will hi 
high for plants from those distant Tegions 
and should it prove possible to add son 
of the new Egyptian specimens which 
daily expect to receive, the distribution 
will exceed that number.1 : 
“Our principal object, at present, being | 
to promote the further plans and intentions | 
of this Institution, we beg to state, 
our traveller has already set out for Ab: 
the Missionaries, a native of Stuttgard. Al 
our own risk we have furnished him with 
ever, prove sufficient, if, according to our — 
earnest wish, he remains more than a year 
tion, is accordingly fixed in the same man- 
ner as the former Arabian one, viz. £3 for 
single, and £6 for double — to le 
aid previously to the individuals 
b as bona fide cse 
This expedition will probably prove of stil 
greater interest than that to Arabia, which 
was, however, accompanied by a rich p 
duce. 
After this, we recommend the collection i 
made by M. Hohenacker in Georgian e 
casus, on the confines of Persia, of whi 
the fourth supply reached us a few me | 
ago, containing very scarce, and many s iu 
species, and which are offered at e 
scription price of £2 10s. for two = 4 
species, and £1 10s. for one hundr 
twenty species. 
T cede these, there remain for those S i 
individuals, who have not participated Y 
the third supply from the same eed 
about sixty species, at the price of U 
i 
1 About two hundred and fifty ai eer bere 
plants from Arabia Felix, the prices 0 x : 
not yet been fixed, may, if desired, be 
