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An account of several plants collected in Brazil, new Holland, Timor, and new guinea, referring to the figures engraven on the copper plates.

Table 1 Figure 1.  Cotton-flower from Bahia in Brazil.  The flower consists of a great many filaments, almost as small as hairs, betwixt three and four inches long, of a murrey-colour; on the top of them stand small ash-coloured apices.  The pedicule of the flower is enclosed at the bottom with 5 narrow stiff leaves, about 6 inches long.  There is one of this genus in Mr. Ray’s Supplement, which agrees exactly with this in every respect, only that is twice larger at the least.  It was sent from Surinam by the name of momoo.

Table 1 Figure 2.  Jasminum Brasilanum luteum, mali limoniae folio nervoso, petalis crassis.

Table 1 Figure 3.  Crista Pavonis Brasiliana Bardanae foliis.  The leaves are very tender and like the top leaves of Bardana major, both as to shape and texture:  in the figure they are represented too stiff and too much serrated.

Table 1 Figure 4.  Filix Brasiliana Osmundae minori serrato folio.  This fern is of that kind which bears its seed vessels in lines on the edge of the leaves.

Table 2 Figure 1.  Rapuntium Novae Hollandiae, flore magno coccineo.  The perianthium composed of five long-pointed parts, the form of the seed vessel and the smallness of the seeds, together with the irregular shape of the flower and thinness of the leaves, argue this plant to be a Rapuntium.

Table 2 Figure 2.  Fucus foliis capillaceis brevissimis, vesiculis minimis donatis.  This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but has much finer parts than that.  It was collected on this coast of New Holland.

Table 2 Figure 3.  Ricinoides Novae Hollandiae anguloso crasso folio.  This plant is shrubby, has thick woolly leaves, especially on the underside.  Its fruit is tricoccous, hoary on the outside with a calix divided into 5 parts.  It comes near Ricini fructu parvo frucosa Curassavica, folio Phylli, P.B. pr.

Table 2 Figure 4.  Solanum spinosum Novae Hollandiae Phylli foliis subrotundis.  This new Solanum bears a bluish flower like the others of the same tribe; the leaves are of a whitish colour, thick and woolly on both sides, scarce an inch long and near as broad.  The thorns are very sharp and thick set, of a deep orange colour, especially towards the points.

Table 3 Figure 1.  Scabiosa (forte) Novae Hollandiae, statices foliis subtus argenteis.  The flower stands on a foot-stalk 4 inches long, included in a rough calix of a yellowish colour.  The leaves are not above an inch long, very narrow like Thrift, green on the upper and hoary on the underside, growing in tufts.  Whether this plant be a Scabious, Thrift or Helichrysum is hard to judge from the imperfect flower of the dried specimen.