BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 497 
with which, as Dryander has noted on Banks’s copy of the plate, 
‘it has no sort of connection.” This plate is headed ‘ Arvore da 
Quina Quina,” has at the foot a printed description in Spanish of 
the details represented, and is lettered “BF, Garden sculpt.”’; there 
is no publisher’s name. It measures without margin 163" x 14” 
‘ . ” 
of a Myroxylon—also known as ; Banks has 
written in pencil upon the plate: ‘The fruit marked Q is copied 
pl 
publisher’s possession. It seems to be very little known, and has 
r. Hawkins, now living at Dorchester, Dorset, a contemporary 
of Sir i 
latter part of his life, was so obliging as to favour me with an 
~ impression of this plate, accompanied with the following letter.” 
The letter, which is dated Dorchester, Oct. 12, 1795, says : “The 
specimens which I made the drawing from came inclosed in a large 
quantity of the bark, several pieces of wood with the bark on, and 
branches of the leaves in flower and seed, packed up. in a cow or 
” 
found, as Sir Joseph Banks told me when I was in London. 
he con- 
tinues: “I being then an apprentice in London, having pleasure 
in the study of Botany, drawing Plants, &c., Doctor Mortimer 
gave me the several specimens that I might form a drawing to be 
engraved for the Royal Society.” 
The reproduction by Pulteney to which Lambert refers is a 
small octavo plat taining the fl ing branch and a few details: 
it was evidently taken from Hawkins’s original, as Pulteney, 
in acknowledging its source, spells his name ‘ Hawkeens ”"— 
the spelling which appears on the plate. On the copy of the 
* This must have been the copy from Sarmento’s book, as Dryander (Cat. 
Bibl. Banks, iii. 475 (1797) ) speaks of the original Hawkins plate as ‘‘ nobis 
desiderata,”’ 
