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operations. Bottles here are awfully dear, and often not to be had at 
any price. Six of the jars, fitting pretty tightly into a box, would be 
easily moved about from place to place. 
My contributions to your museum are this time only insignificant ; 
the only native manufacture at Santarem being baskets from the tender 
leaves in the young shoots of the Tucuma. I send a small work- 
basket, and I have two other baskets too large to be sent at present ; 
these, as well as the spadix and spatha of the Bacüba palm, and some 
other large things, I reserve to be sent after my return from Monte 
Alegre, whence I hope to bring you some interesting things. I have 
already commissioned a number of the beautiful painted cuyas, made 
only at Monte Alegre, through Dr. Campos, whose wife is a native of 
that place; this is necessary, for they are only made as there is a 
demand for them. I shall send many more than you require, but I 
have no doubt purchasers will be found for them, they are so exqui- 
sitely done, equalling some of the best Chinese painted articles; and 
when it is considered that they are done by Indian girls, who make 
their own brushes and colours, they become still more interesting. I 
have learnt from Signora Campos what these colours are, and I shall 
be able to procure specimens of them. 
The two or three fruits from the Rio Aripecurd will be hardly worth 
preserving. No. 27 and 28 are fragments of woods, which may serve 
until I can procure better. No. 29 is the seeds of the Sapacüya; I 
have in vain tried to procure the fruit entire, with the lid, and the tree 
does not grow here. 
(To be continued.) 
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Contributions to the Botany of WESTERN INDIA; 
by N. A. DALZELL, Esq., M.A. : 
(Continued from p. 89.) 
Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOS. E. 
Tribe CÆSALPINIEZÆ. 
CÆSALPINIA. 
C.? spicata; frutex scandens, ramis petiolisque communibus et partia- 
libus aculeis crebris recurvis armatis, foliis bipinnatis, pinnis 5—6- 
jugis, foliolis 5—6-jugis oblongis obtusis coriaceis supra nitentibus 
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