Notes of a Visit to Mexico, 



showy Befaria mexicana, forming a shrub of about eight feet high, 

 and at the time covered with its large white flowers.* The pretty 

 little Mammillaria senilis I found on rocks in the more exposed 

 situations ; its long white spines which at the points are bent back- 

 wards seem to defend it against frost. In the more open places 

 Lupinus leptocarpus, Pentstemon imberbis, Lamourouxia longiflora 

 and mnltifida were common. 



On the 10th of January 1838, I left Bolanos in company with 

 Mr. Floresi the chief commissioner of the Bolanos mines, after 

 having been most hospitably treated by him as well as by Mr. 

 Watson, the company's accountant. On the 14th of that month, I 

 arrived at Zacatecas, whither my collections from Aguas Calientes 

 and Bola n os had preceded me. The sterility of the mountains 

 and plains about Zacatecas, at this season, was such that I was 

 spared the trouble of making fruitless excursions ; I, therefore, 

 arranged my dried specimens and despatched them along with the 

 seeds and bulbs to England. The species collected during the 

 first year amount to 227, of which the following have flowered, or 

 exist in the Garden. 



Catasi-tum maculatum 



Epidendrum asperum 



— equitans 



— umbellatum 



— fuscatum 



Trichopilia tortilis 

 Ilartuv-ia purpurea 

 Oncidium stramineum 



— sphacelatum 



\<>t vim punctata 

 Acropera Loddigesii 

 Rrassavola glauca 

 Liparis elata 

 Maxillaria aromatica 

 — tenuifolia 



Maxillaria variabilis 



Cyrtochilum maculatui 



Stelis ciliaris 

 Polystachya luteola 

 Dinema polybulbon 

 Asagrsea officinalis 

 Ferraria sp. 

 Agave saponaria 

 Habranthus concolor 

 Allium striatellum 

 Sisyrinchium sp. 

 Millabinora 

 Zephyranthes sessilis 

 Bessera elegans 

 Sprekelia glauca 

 Bouvardia splendens 

 Quercus jalapensis 

 Crotalaria sd. 



* A large parcel of seeds which I transmitted to the Society having failed to grow, 

 this gem of the Mexican highlands remains still to be imported. 



