IN VAEIOUS PARTS OF THE GLOBE. 



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Teriistrcemiacece. Some part of the top of the table-land itself 

 was covered with great patches of the beautiful and highly odo- 

 riferous Spiranthera odoratissima of St. Hilaire. It is a suf- 

 frutex, about a foot or a foot and a half high, with pure white 

 blossoms, not unlike at first sight those of the honeysuckle, but 

 larger, and with a smell somewhat similar, but much more pow- 

 erful ; a pretty duarf species of Myrcia, and what appears to 

 be a very distinct species of Anacardium, growing gregariously, 

 and bearing both flowers and fruit, though only about a foot 

 high. The fruit is very much smaller than that of the common 

 cashew, but the leaves are about the same size, and somewhat 

 differently siiaped. 



No. 7. — Tlie Vegetation of the Province of Goyaz, in liraziL 

 By George Gardner, F.L.S., Director of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Ceylon. 



The aldea of Duro is situated on a serra of the same name, 

 being the termination of the Serra Geral, which runs down from 

 the south, and divides into two great branches a little to the 

 north of the mission of Duro. The mission was founded more 

 than a century ago, and is now fast falling into decay ; it con- 

 tains about 2c.O persons in all ; by far the gi'eater part of whom 

 are but little removed in point of civilization from their savage 

 brethren of the woods. I remained among: them a fortni<rhf, 

 and during that time made many excursions into the sur- 

 rounding country, by which many fine additions to my collections 

 were made. The climate is much cooler than that of the low 

 lands, either of the lower parts of the province of Goyaz itself, 

 or of that of Piauhy. The country belonging to the mission 

 amoiuits to twelve square leagues, and is one of the most beauti- 

 ful 1 have seen in the north of Brazil. It consists either of large 

 open grassy undulating campos, or of moist sandy ones, both 

 intersected by stripes of low woods in the hollows. Some of 

 the flatter grassy campos are thinly wooded with small trees, 

 and both there, and on the open ones, numerous beautiful little 

 slirubs and herbaceous plants, giving tlie fields a gay appearance. 

 In this district I met no very large trees, the largest I could 

 determine being species of tlie following genera : — Vochysia, 

 Qualea, Callisthene, Mouriria, Laplacea, Kielmeyera, Laurus, 

 Hancornia, &c. One of the Vochysias was splendidly in flower, 

 and very common by the side of the cool limpid stream that 

 passes close by tlie Aldea, its long spikes of yellow flowers ren- 

 dering it a conspicuous object. The Hancornia is a new species, 

 to which I have given the name of H. collina. It is called by 

 the Indians Mangaba do morro. The fruit is much larger than 



