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his care. This might be obviated by my being favored with a kind relative to the manner in which the articles had arrived in London, which would enable me to show attention to such of the commanders as deserved it on that account and to prevail on them to bestow equal care on other occasions. I humbly hope that you will, with your usual indulgence forgive me for venturing this request, as I feel the greatest anxiety imaginable to present you, and His Majesty's Garden at Kew with as rich and frequent collection as possible. The chests at the foot of the page are such as have not yet been embarked on the respective ships, though they are in readiness with me for being put aboard as soon as the Vessels pass by my house down the river. Their specific dates have therefore not been added. I am sorry the column of Nepal seeds has not been better filled with parcels; I flatter myself, however with the hope, that most of these rare things have arrived in a state fit for vegetation, above all the various dispatches of Rhododendron seeds. Of that genus I have now several distinct species, chiefly from [Golpein-Thon?] an uninhabited place to the Northward of Katmandu at the foot of the Himalaya mountains whence my invaluable friend and correspondent the Honble Mr E Gardner, The President at the Court of the Royal of Nepal, has sent to me the most splendid collections. My two men continue to collect as before in Nepal, under the protection of that matchless donor to our garden; they have now been there for nearly one whole year, and are to remain there at least another and most probably for a still longer period. I have lately had from hence a Lily, which I call Lilium nepalense, differing from L.japonicum