Hoiijlon, 233 
new plants, colle£led by him in the illands 
of Jamaica and Cuba ; in the province of 
Venexuela^ and about Vera Crux, 
He fell a facrifice to the heat of the cli- 
mate, and died in July 1733. He left, in 
manufcript, a Catalogue of Plants, colled- 
ed by himfclf in the places above men- 
tioned ; together v^ith fome engravings done 
by his own hand, Thefe came into the 
hands of Mr. Miller; and, after his 
deceafe, into the poffeffion of Sir Jofepk 
Banks, who, out of refpedi: to the memory 
of fo deferving a man, gratified the bota- 
nifts with the publication of them, under 
the follov\^ing title : 
RELiQ^ri^ HousToniA-HMyfeuPlan" 
tarum in America meridionali^ a Gulielmo 
Houston, M,D. R. S. S. col/effarumlcones, 
7nami propria^ (xre incifce ; cum Defcriptioni- 
bus e Schedis ejufdem in Bibliotheca Jofephi 
Banks, Baronettiy R,S.P, ajjervatis*' 4% 
1781, pp. 12, ta.h. xxvi. 
They contain the characters and defcrip- 
tions of fifteen genera^ and eleven /pedes \ 
pf which, the hft were all natives of the 
country about Vera Crux, Houston's 
new 
