392 Report on the progress of the Horticultural Society, 



No. 21. — Morelia, August 2\st, 1838. — "Yesterday I forwarded 

 " the result of my researches in this neighbourhood to the care of 

 " Messrs. Byrns & Co., of Mexico, to be sent to the care of Messrs. 

 " R. Munoz & Co., Vera Cruz, consisting of four boxes, viz. II. S. 

 " 12 to 15." 



" The term of my agreement to stay in this country will become 

 " expired before I can receive an answer to this letter, I beg to be 

 " informed of the determination of the Council, as to whether I am 

 " to stay a third year in this country, or what I am to do, the aspect 

 " of affairs here being at this moment very unpropitious to all 

 " foreigners, as a war v/ith France seems unavoidable. It has been 

 " my intention to go south of the city of Mexico into the state of 

 " Oajaca where many persons assured me that my exertions will be 

 " better rewarded than in any other direction ; if it is however the 

 " wish of the Council that I should visit any other place beyond 

 " the territory of Mexico, I most humbly submit to its decision, beg- 

 " ging only to be provided with a map of the country which I am 

 " to visit." 



The boxes mentioned in the last letter arrived by different con- 

 veyances; No. 12 and 13 were received Jan. 17, 1839, in good 

 condition, and contained 15 species of Orchidaceae, 9 bulbous plants, 

 and seeds of 16 others, out of which the following are now alive in 

 the gardens, Arisaema macrospatha, Rigidella flammea, a very beau- 

 tiful plant of similar habits to those of Tigridia, Bravoa geminiflora 

 Fuchsia fulgens, (called by Mr. Hartweg F. Lindleyana), Garrya 

 laurifolia, Calochortus barbatus, Milla biflora, Pinus oocarpa, Cra- 

 taegus mexicana, Laelia furfuracea and Laelia autunmalis, besides 27 

 plants now living but which have not flowered. There were also 

 in box 13, two clay balls containing roots of a species of Cypri- 

 pedium, all of which were dead. 



The box No. 14, arrived May 15, 1839, contained 11 species of 

 Orchidaceae, the whole of which are now living, and some roots of 

 terrestrial Orchidaceae, packed in balls of earth, but dead when re- 



