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distance of Tepie, and then returned to Durango, taking a different 
. route, which conducted me to a place called Guajolote. The Indians 
of Guajolote and the Cora tribe in general boil and eat the flowers of 
Yucca aloifolia and several Agaves. What wonderful plants the 
Agaves are! There is not a particle of them that is not used in some 
way or another. In Ecuador I found the people using the spongy 
substance of the flower-stem of 4. Americana instead of tinder, and in 
all the schools the green leaves instead of paper. A punishment 
among the Aztecs was introducing the spiny points of the leaves into 
the skin, as may be seen from their pictorial writings. 
I left Durango on the 13th of February, in company with a Mexican 
gentleman and Mr. Henri Herz, the celebrated pianist and composer, 
who was on his way to California. The road was in a terrible state, 
the Comanche Indians having come near and already killed several of 
the rancheros. All the places were deserted, the people fled. We, 
thank God, arrived safe in Mazatlan on the 22nd of February, 1850, 
where Mr. Henri Herz and I were hospitably received by some of my 
friends—the house of Lomer, Melchers, and Co. H.M.S. Herald 
had not returned, and did not make her appearance before the 22nd 
of March. The vessel had been surveying, in the Gulf of California, 
the coast of Sinaloa and Sonora, which is described by the officers as 
a sterile and barren country. 
Appendix to the * SPICILEGIA GonGoNEA, published in the ‘FLORA OF 
THE NIGER EXPEDITION’; dy P. B. WEBB, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 348.) 
CHRYSOBALANEE. 
89 c. Parinarium excelsum, Sab. A handsome Rosaceous tree, found 
originally at Sierra Leone, and afterwards in Senegal. 
COMBRETACEX. 
89 d. Guiera Senegalensis, Lam. This plant, a native of both the 
eastern and western portions of the African continent, must be added 
to the flora of these islands. 
89 e. Combretum micranthum, Don. An elegant shrub, which ex- 
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