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and iu)\v I am happy to mmv, tli;ii with a timely application of 

 some ot" till* rontoiils of lh*i little inedicifie ehest we have com- 

 pletely recovered, h) a few days, I shall transmit to you part of 

 the Mpiphytes troin \ era !*a/ with a (piantifv of cones, which I 

 take to be a new species of Pine, resemblini;" one sent from 

 An^.m^nco, with cones a little lari^cr than 1*. leiopliylla, bnt dis- 

 tinct from either. One of the mules haviiii;- returned sick from 

 the excursion to \'era l*a/, I sent to a stable to be cured, but it 

 died at the bei;innin'; of this inonih. * 



(iuaivuiiild, July 'ZGtli, iHlo. — " On tlie :3d instant 1 have sent 

 to the care of Messrs. Nicholson and VVriiz,ht of Helize two boxes, 

 of the contents of which I enclose the list. 'J'hey arrived at 

 Isabal on the lOth instant, and have in all probal)ility been 

 shipped in Jielize by this time.* I am now piantini:: in boxes 

 such plants, to take home with me on my return, as I know will 

 not carry well in the ordinary way, or such as do not readily 

 seed. Oaks I am raising in this way as fast as they come in, 

 this beini:;, in my opinion, the only means of obtaining- these spe- 

 cies in Europe. ' I have just returned from a trip along the Cor- 

 dillera, as far as Quezaltcnansjo, and returned with a few but 

 choice things, which I shall transmit to you as soon as the seeds 

 are properly dried ; what I prize most is what I take to be 

 anotlier species of the pendulous flowered plant like a Tigridia 

 {Hiqidella faiinnea) which has flowered with you last year j of 

 this I have secured about :^.50 bulbs. In case some more cones 

 of F'nus oocarpa and occidentalis are wished for, I beg to be 

 informed, as I can get any quantity of them in the month of 

 December ; of the Ayacahuite pine there will be also a fine crop 

 this year near Totonicapan ; of this of course I shall send more 

 in the proper time." 



Guatemala, August 20th, 1840. — "I beg to inform you that 

 the last two boxes H. S. 64 and 6.5, have been received by 

 Messrs. Wright and Nicholson of Behze, previous to the 16th 

 ultimo, but they did not inform me of their having been shipped 

 since. In a Belize paper I see that the two boxes of plants have 

 been shipped on board the " Renown," on the 31st of .Fuly, and 

 two others by the " Ceres," on the 1st instant ; the former I sup- 

 pose to be mine, and tlie latter Mr. Skinner's, sent down by him at 

 the end of May. Both vessels are bound direct to London. I am 

 now about making up another box of bulbs and seeds I have now 

 in my possession Among the bulbs there is one from the Vol- 

 can de Agua (which 1 have ascended lately) and is another 



* These are Nos. 64 and 6.5, which arrived on the 12th of October. They con- 

 tained 3 sorts of seeds, of which one was dead, and 9 sorts of Orchidaceous 

 plants, in heaitiiy condition. One of these has flowered, viz. Oncidiurn 

 macrantheruin. 



