280 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
nation being Manaquiry—a group of sitios on a small river and lake of 
the same name, lying to the south of the great river. It is accounted 
but three days’ journey from the Barra, but it cost me a week, with 
four men, so strong was the current in the very height of the wet sea- 
son, and so little wind was there. Notwithstanding the slowness of. 
the voyage, I found collecting very difficult. Although we crept along 
shore we were rarely near enough to pluck any flowers. I sometimes 
stood in the prow with a long hooked pole, and when we came near 
enough to reach any twiner I ‘made a point’ at it: in this way were 
gathered a remarkably fine 4pocynea, a Mucuna, and several others; 
but, I need not add, in very small quantity. Tt was only two or three 
times that we were * parado" long enough during daylight to enable 
me to penetrate into the Gapó with the montaria; yet in this way I 
got the few curious aquatics in my collection, a second species of your 
new genus Ænkylista, and some other things. By the bye, our little 
Phyllanthus fluitans was there in abundance: are you sure that the 
embryo of this is dicotyledonous ?—there is a remarkable analogy, to say 
the least, with Hydrocharis. 
I had great difficulty also in drying my paper, for, not to speak of 
the rain, during the whole week of the voyage we never saw land, and 
the drying had to be done on board. But when there was wind it was 
difficult to secure the paper against being carried away, and when there 
was none I could scarcely spread it out so as-not to be in the way of 
the rowers. = 
At Manaquiry I paid a visit to a Senhor Zannij (son of the Colonel 
Zannij who was deputed by the Brazilian Government to accompany 
Spix and Martius in the province of Para) and spent a night with 
him. He told me that these naturalists passed some days at Mana- 
quiry ; it is therefore possible I may have got some of the same species 
as Martius gathered there. The whole region between the Madeira and 
the Purás is a noted country of Cachos: in the woods behind Zannij's 
house I saw two species new to me, and got one of them in flower. 
My stay at Manaquiry, and the voyage thither and back (the latter 
only eighteen hours !), occupied above three weeks, but the weather was 
. dreadful (being the fag-end of the wet season), and so interfered much 
both with collecting and preserving. Besides I was quite too early 
_ for the forest-vegetation, and I saw multitudes of trees whose foliage 
was new to me, but which had not begun to show their flowers. 
