MR. y/eir's journal. 563 



covered with scrub and tufts of a hard species of grass called 

 *' barha de hode " (goat's-beard) bj the people here. ' 

 Reached Campinas about mid-day. ■" . . •- 

 Nov, 1st, — Presented my several letters of introduction. All 

 the parties expressed their wllingness to serve me. Hired a 

 room for a month ; by that time I will have looked over a good 

 part of the surrounding country, and will know whether there is 

 much to be got here. 



Nov, ^nd. — My baggage arriving to-day, I established myself 

 in my room, and made ready for work. 



Nov, 3ri. — Went over a great part of the carapo to the south- 

 east of the village ; unfortunately, all the carapo here has been 

 burnt at some time or other, and j)i'obably many of the species 

 that originally grew on them have been destroyed. 



Collected specimens of the following species ; — No. 64, a 

 shrub [Citrosma sp.) growing from 4 to 6 feet high. Its small 

 green flowers smell strongly of lemon, and from this circum- 

 stance it is called here " lemao bravo." No. 05, an Acanthad 

 with scarlet flowers (Euellia sjj ), which are, however, produced 

 sparingly. No. 66, a pretty little Polygala, flowers pink ; it grows 

 among the grass in the campo. No. 67 is a large shrub, or small 

 tree {ByrsGnima s]^,)^ also from the campo ; its - flowers are 

 yellow. No. 68 is another tree found scattered over the carapo, 

 ■None of these are worthy of cultivation : but No. 69, a climbing 

 Bignouiad, is a very showy plant ; it rambles over the small 

 -trees and bushes, producing numerous large spikes of flowers. 

 The calyx of the flower is of a bright scarlet or crimson colour, 

 the corolla something paler; the panicles of flowers are often 

 upwards of a foot in length- I never saw this in cultivation, and 

 if not already introduced, it is certainly worth sending home. It 



would make a fine stove climber. I am afraid it would not 

 succeed well in a greenhouse. 



Nov, ith. — At a little distance from tlie village, in p. north- 

 westerly direction, there are some pieces of virgin forest, and I 



-went out to-day to examine these. Here I found a great number 

 of trees of a species of Lrmriis^ with aromatic leaves something 

 like those of the Sweet Bay. There are also occasional trees of 

 it on the campo. The people have also trees of it planted in 



•their ** quintals," or yards. Is the tree indigenous ? or have the 

 trees in the forest escaped fi^om cultivation ? It is not in flower 

 at present. No. 69 I found in the forest scrambling up almost 



■every tree along with two other B 



gnoniads 



