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chopteris elegans ; and the other in Hooker's Icones Plantarum, 

 under the name of Coptophyllum buniifolium. Of the latter 

 genus I met Avith a much finer species some time afterwards in 

 a more southern part of the province. Besides many other fine 

 plants, this serra afforded me three species of the genus Vellozia 

 in flower, two of them low-growing plants, the one with lai'ge 

 white flowers, the other with purple ones, and the third, from 

 four to six feet high, also bearing numerous purple blossoms. 

 One of the most remarkable plants of this serra grew also near 

 the summit ; but, unfortunately, it had not come into flower be- 

 fore I was obliged to leave. On one plant I found one or two 

 flowers just sufficiently advanced to enable me to determine that 

 it belongs to the natural order l/mbelliferce. It will most likely 

 prove to be either a species of Klotzschia, or some other genus 

 belonging to the same tribe a^ Hydrocotylce. It is a suflTruticose 

 plant, reaching from six to ten feet high, with large peltate 

 leaves, the lower ones of which measure about two feet in dia- 

 meter. On limestone rocks belonging to the same range, but 

 about two leagues farther north, I likewise met with a few good 

 plants, such, for example, as a fruticose Gesnera^ a fine annual ? 

 species of Gloxinia, about a foot and a half high, with purple 

 axillary blossoms, the middle lobe of the under lip of which has 

 its margin toothed and turned inwards, so as exactly to resemble 

 the lower jaw of a fish, from which peculiarity I have named the 

 species G. ichthyostoma ; two or three curious species of Ha- 

 benaria, a climbing Alstrcemeria, beautiful specimens of Gloxi- 

 nia Sarmentiana, much finer than those which I first met with 

 near Oeiras, several fine Marantacece, an A?iemici, and in the 

 clefts of the dry limestone rocks, a pretty little Adiantum {A. 

 calcareum, Gardn.). Sandy campos near this place afforded 

 me a fine lilac-coloured Lisianthus, a few Habenarice, a pretty 

 Peltodon, an Asclepias, and many Composites and Grasses. 



In the month of February 1840, the rains having abated 

 considerably, I left Natividade, and, pursuing a S.E. course, 

 reached Villa de Arrayas, another small town towards the eastern 

 boundary of the province. Till the rains would enable me to 

 proceed on my journey southward, I remained here about two 

 months, amassing a splendid collection of those plants which are 

 peculiar to the upland grassy campos of the interior of Brazil. 

 Arrayas is situated in a little valley on the top of a broad hilly 

 elevated serra ; and, as the country around it is very diversified, 

 I considered myself fortunate in being placed in such an excel- 

 lent field for my researches. The vegetation here was very dif- 

 ferent from any I had hitherto met with, and I spared no exer- 

 tion to obtain as many species as were to be had in flower. The 

 trees in these upland campos are mostly small, consisting chiefly 



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