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blossoms in the breeze; nor should Curatella americana, Linn., Vismia japurensis, 
Reichardt, and the Lepacho * be omitted. 
Among shrubs Anonacez are conspicuous, especially Anona coriacea, Mart., var. 
dioica, A. St.-Hil., and Stormia brasiliensis, S. Moore. Species of Helicteres, including the 
curious .H. orthotheca, S. Moore, with large straight capsule-valves, are common, as are 
the Erythrozylons, especially E. nitidum, Spreng. Bauhinias (Bauhinia obtusata, Vog., 
B. cumanensis, H. B. K., and others) frequently occur, and Malpighiaceze ( Heteropteris, 
Banisteria, Byrsonima), Myrtaceve (Eugenia, Myrcia, Psidium Aracu, Raddi, yielding a 
pleasant fruit), Melastomaceze (Miconia, Clidemia, &e.), and Coccolobas, the red-plumed 
tiny flower-heads of Calliandra parviflora, Benth., Heisteria rubricalyx, S. Moore, the 
tall Oxalis hirsutissima, Zucc., Turnera odorata, Rich., Siparuna guianensis, Aubl., 
Nua hermaphrodita, S. Moore, Sorocea grandifolia, S. Moore, may be mentioned among 
many others, as well as the East Brazilian Brosimum Gaudichaudii, Tréc. Palms, such as 
the Urubamba, the Tocúm, the Bocaúba, the Guacory, occur here and there +. Climbers 
are plentiful: Hireas (volubilis, S. Moore, and sepium, A. Juss.), Passion-flowers 
(Passiflora tricuspis, Mast., P. coccinea, Aubl.), Bignonias, Dalechampia cuiabensis, Muell. 
Arg., looking like a Bougainvillea with its pink involucral bracts, the fine red-flowered 
Anguria gloriosa, S. Moore, and Smilax medicinalis, S. Moore, are worthy of notice. 
Another common order is that of the Rubiacez. You will often find little sandy stretches 
by the river-side brightened by the small pink-blossomed gregarious Sipanea veris, S. Moore, 
and Richardsonia grandiflora, Cham. & Schlecht., and R. pilosa, H. B. K. ; Borreria cupu- 
laris, DC., Diodia saponarioides, Presl, and .D. multiflora, DC., as well as Sabicea 
humilis, S. Moore, are all lowly members of this order, belonging to which one may cite, 
among the shrubs, Coussareas, Faramea coussarioides, S. Moore, Rudgea viburniodes, 
Benth., Mapourea tomentella, S. Moore, Psychotria subcrocea, Muell. Arg., resplendent with 
coralline peduncles and yellow flowers, Chiococca brachiata, Ruiz & Pav., the Amazonian 
Randia Ruiziana, DC., var. longiflora, K. Schum., and the remarkable new Alibertia ver- 
rucosa, with warted berries, made into a preserve by the Santa-Cruzans. Among mono- 
cotyledonous herbs you will see, nestling in the shade of shrubby covert, the delicate 
trumpet-shaped golden flowers of Costus acaulis, S. Moore, Calatheas, the new Maranta 
longiscapa, and Renealmia Holdeni, Zygelia graminea, S. Moore, ground aroids (Caladium 
heterotypicum and Aphyllarium tuberosum, both new to science), Herreria Salsaparilha, 
Mart., and several others. A small brook, nearly dry in October, runs through the 
settlement. On its bank or growing in its bed you may come across, inter alia, Aciotis 
dichotoma, Cogn., and Acisanthora inundata, Triana, both Melastomacez ; Heliotropes 
(Heliotropium indicum, L., inundatum, Sw., filiforme, H. B. K.), Conobea scrophularioides, 
Benth., a little blue-flowered Scrophularia, and Polygonum acre, H. B. K. Peperomia 
* I did not see this tree in flower at Santa Cruz, but our woodeutters by preference selected dead Lepacho wood 
all the way up the river. If the Santa Cruz plant be not true Lepacho, it is most probably closely allied to it; at any 
rate, it has the same peculiar greenish wood. 
+ I did not pay special attention to this group, and, judging from the few specimens brought back, the various 
local names are here applied to Palms specifically distinct from those known by the same names in the eastern 
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