204 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Sauvagesia not described in De Candolle's Prodromus, several - 
shrubby Hyptides, numerous Composite, two splendid suf- 
fruticose Apocyneous plants, both from two to three feet high, - 
one having broad leaves and hypocrateriform flowers of a pink 
colour, about two inches across, and belonging apparently 
to some genus near Vinca; the other with decussate foliage, 
green above and very white below, with white hypocrater iform | 
flowers. . The pink-blossomed species is peculiarly beautiful. 
I likewise found here two erect subshrubby Passion-flowers, — 
two feet high; Amaryllis solandreflora ? (Lindl.,) an Alstre- 
meria, several Asclepiadee and Lantanas, an Amyris, XC» &e —— 
“On the 13th of October, we left Douro, and on the 25th a 
reached this place (Natividade) which is about thirty league — 
distant from Douro in a westerly direction. Here I intend 2 
to remain for a month or two, principally to recruit my - 
horses, which have suffered a good deal from the long journey 
they have made, amounting to no less than 250 leagues. 
The rains have also set in, and the roads, which e 
in the most civilized parts of Brazil, are a thousand times 
worse in the deserts by which I am now surrounded. On this 
latter journey I have again collected many plants, chiefly be- 
longing to the same Genera and natural Orders as on 
two former ones, mentioned above, but the species are differ- v 
ent, as Malpighiacee, . Rubiacee, Lantane, a Qualea, m a 
species of Ichthyothere, several new Jatrophas and Erythroaglons a 
&c.: also a species of the tree called by the Brazilians 2 
Mangaba, but with much broader foliage and larger fruit than 2 
the one sent from Pernambuco, and a very fine C. n 
having spotted flowers and some points of agreement with 
C. punctatum, but the petals very obtuse. Orchidee have not : 
been very plentiful in this neighbourhood, still those specie? — 
which I met with are fine, and I have obtained good roots% 
them all, which I trust will reach Europe in a living state — 
Cactee are scarcer still; but the Melocactus mentioned aboveés — 
and a very beautiful crimson-flowered Cereus that I gathere" 
between Oeiras and Paranagoa, are valuable acquisitions t° 
that tribe. I regret to say, however, that several plants of 
