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7. P. éenella; filiformis, squamis minutis, cyma pauciflora, floribus 
subsessilibus, bracteis minimis nullisve, styli lobis inappendiculatis. 
—Herba albescens, 3-6-pollicaris. Cyme irregulares, interdum ad 
spicam simplicem interruptam 2—6-floram reductz. Flores fere 4 lin. 
longi, v. in var. 8 minores, tenerrimi. 
In the woods of the Rio Negro, near Barra, and the small-flowered 
variety in the Serra da Gama on the Rio Negro, and in the gapó of the 
Rio Uaupés. 
Extract of a Letter from Mn. Louvis KRALIK,* dated Sfax, June 4, 1854. 
I passed three months at Gabés. This appears a very long time, 
and yet it was hardly sufficient to collect all the plants to be found in 
the neighbourhood. As the circle of my excursions was extended I 
daily added some new species to my stock. My intention was to have 
quitted the district of Gabés for a fortnight or three weeks, and to. 
have consecrated that time to a visit to Djerba (the ancient Lotopha- 
gitis), and the opposite coast of Zerziz; but man disposes and circum- - 
stances unlooked for often thwart his designs. This has been the case 
in regard to my projects. I had passed the greater part of the three —- 
months at Gabès alone; on the return from Sfax of Mr. Henry Mattei, — 
the French Consular agent, a new and vast exploration presented itself, — 
and the expedition projected to the Lotophagitis was adjourned. The - 
time of sheep-shearing amongst the Arabs had arrived; Mr. Matteis - 
affairs obliged him to make a journey in the territory of the Beni-Zid, — 
whose wool he had just contracted for, and I accepted eagerly the offer — 
he made me to accompany him. The Beni-Zid, who, as I told you in 
my former letter, are continually at war with the Hamema, were then 
encamped at about five leagues from Gabès, towards the west, beyond — 
the chain of mountains called the Djebel Keroua in Mr. Pelissier's | 
map. Although this chain is only of moderate height, at most 2000 - 
. feet, and the mountain-pass through which we went could scarcely have - 
. exceeded’a quarter of this altitude, the entire vegetation however changed - 
à coup @eil. Instead of the eternal Helianthemums, Echiochilon fruti- 
cosum, Linaria Aigyptiaca, Erodium glaucophyllum, Anthyllis tragacan- 
thoides, etc., which, with sad uniformity, cover the whole plain of the - 
desert which extends between the palm-wood of Gabés and the moun- 
* On a botanical tour in the Regency of Tunis. 
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