List of plants collected from Brazil by John Forbes

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Scope & content: List of plants, with the beginning of the list missing, numbered (specimens 26-241), some unnamed, with a brief description. Includes Bixa orellana ('Botanic Garden, flower pinkish red'), a species of Malvaceae ('flower dirty red, 20 feet, loamy soil'), a species of Tillandsia ('flower pink & white, rocks, entrance into Boto Fogo Bay [Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], these rocks are almost continually moist'), a species of Ficus ('20 feet, loamy soil') and Vittaria lineata ('decaying trees, pendulous') [here the list includes 210 more plants]. Paginated

Undated [May-Jun 1822; Forbes visited Brazil between May and June 1822]