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(a leguminous shrub, and my former Boumama) which I 

 sent you from Villa de Crato in the province of Ceard, and 

 which I have since found both in Piauhy, and in this neigh- 

 bourhood abundantly, is no doubt well known. It is a 

 beautiful shrub, and I have now obtained fine specimens of 

 It. The Villa de Arroyas is situated in a little valley on the 

 top of a broad hilly rather elevated serra, and the country 

 around being very diversified, it affords an excellent field for 

 the Botanist, and I am happy to inform you tbat I have been 

 very fortunate during the months which I have remained here. 

 My collection, since I left Natividade, amounts to 369 spe- 

 cies, all of them interesting to the Botanist ; and since I quit- 

 ted the city of Oeiras, I have collected in all 1486, of the 

 greater part of which I have thirty full sets; and I flatter my- 

 self that this is no bad work for nine and a half months. The 

 Vegetation here is very different from any I have met with in 

 Brazil. I cannot mention the number of fine plants that I 

 nave found since I last wrote you, but among others I may 

 iiote four fine species of Vellozia, one of which bears white 

 flowers, the other three purple ones : also six or eight kinds 

 of Dipbisodo7i, an herbaceous Angelonio, a Cybianthus, two 

 ^^ochysice an arborescent Panax, numerous noble Melastoma- 

 ^*'«, a Cerasus, two species o? Eryngium, an Andromeda, a 

 Loasa, a beautiful yellow-flowered Allamanda, several very 

 striking Gentianece, such as two beautiful Lasianthi with blue 

 flowers, and two kinds of Exacum, one of them about four 

 feet high, common in upland campos, and very graceful in its 

 '>abit; a most beautiful little Anemia, its leaves exactly resem- 

 bling those .of Achillcea millefolhtm, several species of ^cro«- 

 iichum, a few Mosses, a great variety of Grasses, numerous 

 Leguminosce, Hyptides and Justicice ; many fine species of 

 I-oranthus and Viscum, several Malvacece, and a beautiful 

 annual Gloxinia, also a most splendid collection of CompositcB ; 

 ^^ no place have I met with so many of the latter tribe as 

 here. Among them I would particularly enumerate the ge- 

 nera Vernonia and Eupatorium, also three species of Pycno- 

 ^^phalum, seven or eight of Ooclinium, (DC) one of which is 



