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" SGth. At Taubate, resting the mules in the vicinity of 

 the town, found several species of Rhexia, and a pentandrous 

 blue-flowered plant, allied to Exacum, also a new species oi 

 Menyanthes [Villarsia.) 



*«27lh. Left Taubate at 7 a.m.; and passing over a Campo, 

 arrived at a Rancho, two leagues short of San Jose, where 

 we put up for the night, having travelled thirty-two English 

 miles this day. 



" 28th. Arrived on the banks of the river at Jacarahy at 

 12 o'clock, ferried our luggage over in a canoe, and swam the 

 mules across : this is the broadest and deepest river that we 

 have met with ; travelled two leagues further, (eight English 

 miles,) and put up at a sugar-work for the night. We had no 

 sooner taken possession of our new lodging, than we were 

 attacked by that disagreeable insect the Jigger or Chigoe, which 

 penetrated the skin of our feet in order to deposit its eggs. 



" 29ih. Left the sugar-work and proceeded to Mogy das 

 Cruces, near seven leagues distant, where we arrived at 7 

 P.M., much fatigued, the evening turning out rainy ; and we 

 found the hills very steep. At the base of one of them we 

 found a species of A^naryllis, allied to A. equestris. It grows 

 in damp shaded situations. The hedges were ornamented 

 with a beautiful climbing Erythrina, with scarlet flowers. 

 This day we passed the largest tree of the Araucaria we have 

 yet seen. 



« May 1st. Rested yesterday, and left Mogy das Cruces 

 this morning at 7 a.m., and arrived in the evening at a small 

 Venda, two and a half leagues from San Paulo. Some part 

 of the road ran through a swamp, in which we collected a 

 species of Pontederia, also a species of Eriocaulon and a 

 Fuchsia, with flowers larger than F. coccinea, petals revolute. 

 It was a tree upwards of thirty feet high. 



" 2d. Left the Venda at 6 a.m., and arrived at the city of 

 San Paulo at 10.; went in search of lodgings, and procured 

 them at the house of an English Cabinet-maker, through the 

 medium of Colonel Mliller, to whom we had letters of recom- 



