
          Recd. [Received] Nov. 16th 1867


 Sir,


 After a long interruuption of botanical intercourse
 between you and our gardens, I take the
 liberty to propose to you a renewal of our
 ancient relations, by addressing you, through 
 the kindness of Prof. A. Gray, an envoi of plants, 
 containing:


 Japan & Manchuria plants 171 sp.
 Longaria plants coll. [collected] by Threux 88-
 Armenian plts [plants] coll. [collected] by [Trovits?] 46-
 Various  105-
 410


 To which I present myself to join several 
 botanical papers of mine, destined to illustrate
 the flora of eastern Asia, chiefly
 Japan.


 The Longaria, Armenia and Japan plants,
 if welcome, shall be continued as soon as
 they are named; the Longarian by Dr. Trautvetter
 (in the Bulletin de la soc. d. natur. de Moscou) [Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes de Moscou], the
 Armenian by Boissier (in the Flora Orientalis),

        