198 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
from what I had before seen. One is a tree about twenty 
feet high, with small odoriferous light yellow flowers, arranged 
on short axillary distichous racemes. I think it will prove — 
to be a new genus, and even constitute the type of a new 
Order, intermediate between Loranthacee and Hamamelidee. 
The enclosed description, drawn up from the living plant, - 
you may consider worthy of publication; at all events, it will — 
convey an accurate idea of the parts of fructification, &c. 
* During my stay at Jardin, I made two other short excur- 
sions: one to a place called Macapé, five leagues east of it, 
and another to Mundo Nova, three leagues in a westerly 
direction; neither, however, was very productive in a botan- 
ical point of view. Returning from Mundo Nova, I collected 
a fine leafless Viscum, and a species of Copaifera, (C. coriacea, - 
. Martius); the latter is a noble large tree, common on th 
top of the Serra, and affording abundance of Balsam; itis — 
called Pao d' Olho, by the natives. At Mundo Nova, Isaw 
for the first time, Chorisia crispiffora, but like all the other 
trees there, it was both out of flower and fruit. It attains 4 
height of thirty to forty feet, with a wide spreading top; and 
a stem which near the ground does not exceed three or four 
feet in circumference, but bulges out towards the middle till 
it becomes as thick as the body of a large cow. It is called P 
Barriguda. Another tree that I found here is known by the — t 
name of Imleuzina: its fruit when ripe is said to be delicious — 
but what I saw was quite green; still I have ascertained this 
tree, which grows to a large size, to bea species of Spondias. 
* During my stay at Jardin, I made a pretty large collection — 
of Fossil Fish; the specimens exist in water-worn limestones, 
along the base of the Serra de Araripe, and will no doubt 
prove interesting in a geological point of view as affording 2 
clue to the discovery of the age of the rocks in this district. 
I have sent a small set to my kind friend Mr Bowman, along 
with a sketch of the geology of such parts of this province 85 
I have visited, he having obligingly offered to make public 
| any discoveries of the kind of which I might transmit him M 
account. vuv | 
