
          also another widely different plant, Mr. Guilandina
 Rondu worked [Coesalpinus?] from East Florida.


 With regard to Hemianthus & Micranthemum I am
 afraid I led [End..?] into error and from the very imperfect
 flower of Hemianthus I had examined I had thought the
 two were but one genus. I may be quite wrong in this
 but surely Micranthemum is a true Scrophulariaceae. The
 capsule is two-celled - at least as it appears to me only that the
 [dissepiment?] is exceptionally thin & disappears often at maturity
 [crossed out: illegible] - and the stamina alternates with the lobes of the corolla
 which is the important distinction. If you got hold of
 good working specimens of Hemianthus in number
 sufficient to bestow upon me I shall feel truly obliged.


 Mrs. Bentham and myself had a very pleasant
 summer and autumn we were above two months in
 the Pyrenees where I made some very good [herbor..tions?]
 and where we rode and scrambled about a great deal.
 We had beautiful weather whilst all this country
 was drenched. We were afterwards five weeks at
 Paris during which time I collected a good many notes
 and specimens for my [Seguminione?] and we returned
 here by the first days of Dec. Since then I have been
 mainly occupied with Schomburgk's Guiana plants.
 That traveller is now here and we have been most
 pleased with him.  He has been over a very interesting
 country, and though much impeded by [?] and

        