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before this have received the seed of Hugenia Mitchelli. Mr. 
Macleay is delighted with it, and says it is a capital fruit.” 
January 28, 1845.—‘ W. Macarthur writes me that some of 
his later roots of hybrid Crinums are even superior to the first. 
A plant of Musa Cavendishi has arrived at the Gov. Garden 
(Sydney) from Kew.” 
February 15, 1845.—‘“ The sketch obviously represents the 
Liverpool Plains Crinum, which is a peculiar one. I sail on 
Wednesday next in the ‘ Coquette,’ for Tahiti.” 
February 8, 1846'!—“On going on board the ‘ Brightman ’ 
just now I found your parcel with the newspaper in my cabin. 
They (the Passifloras) would not fruit with me at Tahiti. I was 
much delighted at looking over the Flora Antarctica at Dr. 
Bennett’s (Dr. George Bennett. J.H.M.), not the less so as I see 
that in it I have credit done me for my early discoveries in New 
Zealand. I often had occasion to feel annoyed at seeing my plants, 
which I procured from Tongariro, named as discovered by Dieften- 
bach, &c¢, who discovered them 4 years after I did,’ but then I 
sent all my plants (except an imperfect set) to Lindley, who never 
published one of them, and it was only from the evidence con- 
tained in the very imperfect herbarium which I gave to Sir 
William Hooker, when I was in England, that I was enabled to 
prove that Lindleyana (sic.) of Dieffenbach’s or Somelans (szc.) 
plants were discovered by them for the first time, as it is they 
have never found several of my plants. Lindley has served a like 
trick with the rare Tahitian Orchids which I sent him in spirit 
(at my own expense) on my return thence.” 
May 12, 1846.—“ There is nothing particular in flower at 
Camden (Mr. William Macarthur’s); several of Leichhardt’s 
things have flowered, but all poor and miserable—a Tephrosia, a 
thing related to Goodia, an Hibiscus, more miserable than I 
thought an Hibiscus could be, and a poor ? Mena (a bluish Crota- 
1 For a brief account of Bidwill’s and Dr. Ernest Dieffenbach’s botanical 
explorations, see Cheeseman’s “‘ Manual of the New Zealand Flora,” xxi. 
