588 MR. WEIE's journal. 



able to ride as fast as we should on tte way to Brotas. I have 

 sent him off to-day, to await my arrival there. 



Feh, IMh, — Made a long excursion into the forest to-day. 

 Collected specimens of No. 191 {Oxyintahim sp.), a climbing 

 shrub, with greenish flowers, of no interest; No. 19S, a small 

 climbing herbaceous plant, with scarlet flowers (^Manettia sp.) ; 

 and No. 193, a small Aristdlochia, The weather continues fine, 

 and I hope the most of the rainy season is now past, and that by 

 the time I get back to Campinas and Itu, I shall be able to 

 collect the Orchids I saw there, and send them home. 



Feb. I2th, — In the wood to-day 1 collected No. 3 94 [Seriana 

 sp.), a cHmbing shrub of no interest, and No. 195, au Epiden- 

 dron of no beauty. The flowers are green, with a fe\y purple 

 stains on the column. 



Feb. I6th. — Left Jahu at 8 o'clock, and reached Dos Cor- 

 regos at half-past 4 in the afternoon. 



Feb, IGth. — Started early in the morning, and arrived at 

 Brotas at 3 in the afternoon. Found my camarada something 

 better, and hope he will soon be fit for his duties again. 

 ■ Called upon the Vigaria, to whom I had a letter from 

 Dr. Gattiker, but who was not at home when I passed through 

 the village before. He enjoys quite a provincial reputation 

 for being a man of large ideas and Avell educated, which is 

 more than many of the Padres are here. The Vigaria, whose 

 name is Jose Manoel Con^eiyao, w^as \erj kind, and offered to go 

 with me to-morrow to show me a fine waterfall which has lately 

 been discovered in the Serra, a few leagues from Brotas. 



Feb, 11 th, — Although the weather was not at all promising, 

 we started for the Salto. At a distance of about g^ leagues from 

 the village of Brotas we reached the Serra, as it is called. It is 

 the same precipitous face of rock that I have already spoken of 

 as beginning near Perisicaba. Here it is not quite so high as it 

 is nearer its eastern end, and a few leagues further west or south- 

 west it runs out altogether. From the base of the Serra our path 

 led through one of the many quebradas, or| gulleys, which break 

 the continuity of its rocky face, to the comparatively level table- 

 land above, over which it continued for about another league aud 

 a half, to the fazenda of '' Agua Branca." This is situated at 

 the top of another, the greatest, deepest, and most precipitous of 

 all the quebradas in the Serra. It is, in fact, the valley of the 

 considerable river Jacare, and the fall we bad come to see is one 

 of the series it makes in its descent from the table-land above to 



