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PREFACE. T^"'^^^ 



GARDEN. 



The following plants are part of a large collection made by- 

 Mr. J. Linden among the mountains wMcli form a curve 

 closing in the Gulf of Maracaybo on the south, and extending as 

 far as Santa Fe de Bogota : a district inclosed between the 

 parallels of 4° and 10" north latitude. A few species from 

 Cuba, collected in the same expedition, are intermixed with 

 them. They make a very interesting series, of which more than 

 one-half was previously undescribed. 



Of these plants many are alive in the gardens of this country 

 or of Belgium, in consequence of Mr. Linden having furnished 

 contributions to some of our great English collectors; and 

 having parted with the residue, consisting of between 70 and 

 80 species, to M. de Jonghe, 20, Rue des Visitandines, at 

 Brussels, who has them for sale. Under these circumstances 

 they must be expected to find their way quickly into the pos- 

 session of cultivators, and I have therefore willingly undertaken 

 the agreeable duty of publishing a short account of them at 

 Mr. Linden^s request. In doing so, that enterprising traveller's 

 own notes have been literally translated, placed between inverted 

 commas, and printed in italics, by which means the reader will 

 be able to distinguish between the result of observation in the 

 field, and in the cabinet. 



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