Bij Joseph Sabine, Esq. 441 



very interesting collection of specimens, which will be the 

 subject of a future communication. 



In the preparation of the following notices, I have derived 

 most essential assistance, in almost every article, from the 

 information of Mr. Robert Brown ; without that aid the 

 account would have wanted those elucidations and explana- 

 tions which his profound knowledge and research alone could 

 supply, and which have given interest to some of the sub- 

 jects far beyond what I anticipated or hoped for, before I 

 obtained his promise of co-operation. 



I have endeavoured to make the descriptions of the plants 

 as simple as possible, avoiding minute botanical details, such 

 general characters only being given as will enable the culti- 

 vator to recognize the plants under his care, or the future 

 collector to distinguish them in their native places. In the 

 course of the examination of the specimens, several curious 

 and novel productions have been discovered, the accounts of 

 which will be particularly interesting; but as they are 

 strictly botanical, they have been reserved for publication in 

 a separate shape, in the Transactions of the Linn&an Society, 

 and will be exclusively from the pen of Mr. Brown. 



Many of the plants have proved to be hitherto unknown or 

 undescribed species, some of them belonging even to new 

 genera. The materials of others have not proved sufficient 

 to justify either the adoption of an old or the application of a 

 new generic name for them ; consequently in those cases the 

 vernacular appellations alone are prefixed. Where generic 

 or specific names before used are added, the original authority 

 for them is in all instances quoted, so that where references 



