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and holiday. I accompanied him on one of these occasions, and we 

 were paddled over in a canoe. We entered the cottage of a man of 

 colour, the chief person of the place ; a hammock was hanging in 

 the room, and into this my companion threw himself, and three or 

 four children of the house quickly came to him, one or two of whom 

 he took into the hammock to play with. The females made their 

 appearance to greet him upon his arrival ; he was a favourite 

 seemingly with all parties, great and small. Indeed I never met 

 with any one who possessed more pleasing manners. He is generally 

 beloved wherever he is known, but by the lower orders of people 

 more especially, he is quite adored. I was long acquainted with 

 him, both before and after the time of which I speak, and I never 

 heard him make use of a harsh word to any one ; his manner and 

 his tones of voice always indicated that goodness in him greatly 

 predominated. A free mulatto man, of the name of Bertolomeu, 

 once said to me in speaking of this priest, ' If he sees a child fall, 

 he runs and picks it up and cleans its face, and this he does not do ' 

 because any one is in sight to see him act in this manner, but 

 because his heart so inclines him.' It is much to be lamented that 

 his exertions have not been directed to obtaining a situation in 

 which his excellent qualities might have a wider field for display : 

 but he is satisfied with what has been given to him." 



In the following list I have arranged alphabetically under their 

 Latin names the species enumerated on Arruda's authority in 

 Koster's Appendix, omitting the well-known plants which are in- 

 cluded therein. I have quoted the vernacular names and such 

 portions of the descriptions as are necessary for my purpose. In 

 the Appendix, •' Arrud. Cent. Plant. Pern." follows each name. The 

 mark ! after a work cited specifies that Arruda's name is cited therein. 



AcANTACARYx PiNGuis. Piqui. Koster, p. 491. 



Mr. Jackson refers Acantacaryx to Caryocar, and A. Pinyuis is 

 doubtless identical with C. brasiliensis Willd. : the properties ascribed 

 to the two trees are similar, and Miers gives "Pequia" as the name 

 of the latter in Bahia : Arruda's "Piqui" "is the delight of the 

 inhabitants of Seara [Ceara] audPiauhi." Endlicher (Gen. p. 1076) 

 prints the name Acunthocaryx, which Jackson (who does not note its 

 identity with Acantacaryx) further modifies into Acanthocarya. Thus 

 is synonymy increased. 

 Agave vivipara Lin. Syst. Veg. Caroata-acu or Piteira. Koster, 481. 



According to Miers and Index Keivensis, this is not A. vivipara L., 

 but= Furcnea agavephylla Brot. — a plant which in the Index is 

 subsequently (under Furcraa) identified with F. cubensis Vent. 

 Brotero's description occurs in Roem. & Schult. Syst. vii. (not vi. as 

 in Ind. Kew.) 731, where it is given as from " Linn. Transact. March, 

 1823." Neither Mr. Jackson nor I have been able to trace this 

 reference. 

 Amyris Pernambucensis. Almecega. Koster, 500. 



This may certainly be referred to Protium: the name "Alme- 

 cega" is common to several species, and in this case probably 

 = /'. heptaphyllum /j. hrasiliense Engl. 



