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and were also in bad condition. The whole number of plants they 

 contained was 71 Orchidacea?, three Mammillariae, three sorts of 

 bulbs, and the species of Testudinaria mentioned in the letter. Of 

 these, the Mammill arias are now living ; so likewise are two of the 

 three bulbous plants (an Oxalis, and Bessera elegans), and the 

 Testudinaria. Forty-two species of the Orchidaceous plants are 

 alive, but not in good health. 



About 300 of the Orchidaceous plants received in these boxes 

 have been distributed. 



No. 33.— Tehuantepeque, August 23d, 1839.— " Enclosed I send 

 " you the list of the articles, with their stations, collected during 

 " my sojourn in the state of Oaxaca. The six last boxes H. S. 

 " 38 — 43, left for Vera Cruz on the 12th instant, where they will 

 " arrive by the end of this month. 



" On the 13th instant I left Oaxaca for Guatemala, and arrived 

 " here yesterday. The journey from hence will occupy from 30 to 

 " 36 days ; I could perform it easily in half that time, were it not for 

 " the difficulty of sending my luggage thither, which obliged me to 

 " buy another mule, and to travel only 6 to 8 leagues daily, which in 

 " fact is quite enough, considering the bad state of the roads and 

 " mountain passes towards Chiapa. I also found it necessary to 

 " add to my travelling establishment another horse, one having 

 " become completely exhausted by the long and continued excur- 

 " sions in the state of Oaxaca ; but unfortunately that new horse, on 

 " arriving near the Hacienda, where he had been bred, took to the 

 " bush. The Administrador, however, to whom the horse is well 

 " known, promised me to do all in his power to restore him to me, 

 " and sent two herdsmen in search of him ; of the result of their 

 " exertions 1 shall be informed to-morrow." 



The six boxes arrived on the 21st December last; out of 46 

 species of Orchidaceae they contained, 30 are now living ; out of five 

 bulbous and tuberous plants, three are living ; besides these there 



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