592 iiR. weir's journal. 



March hth. — On the road for Campinas/ Reached Sta, Barbara 

 in the evening. Collected No. 219, a scarlet-flowered acautha 

 ceous shrub, 3 to 4 feet high. 



March %th.—On the road. Had to cross a deep and dangerous 

 liver on the Tfay, the bridge having been carried away by the 

 floods. It took us about three hours to get across all our things, 

 and the mules, and to get ready to start again, and in conse- 

 quence of this delay we did not get in to Campinas until an hour 



after dark. 



March 9th. — Still continues very wet. 



March lOth. — Although still very wet, the rain is not quite so 

 heavy to-day. I made a short excui'sion out of the village on the 

 road to Limeira, and collected specimens of the following species : 

 No. SI 3, a roadside weed (Hyptis sp.) ; No. 214, a slender 

 twining Echites, with greenish flowers; No. 215, a tall herba- 

 ceous species of Lo&^Zia, common in damp places ; No. 216, a 



tall weed belonging to the Compositm^ very common everywhere ; 

 No. 217, a rather pretty slender twining leguminous plant 

 (Clitoria sp.), and No, 218 [Miltonia sp.), an orchideous 

 epiphyte, with pale white sepals and petals, and purplish lip. 



March llth. — The rain has been falling nearly all day 

 as heavily as ever making it quite impossible to go out. 1 have 

 now lost all hopes of being able to send any plants by next 

 steamer. 



March \Wi, — Very wet, with thunder, in the afternoon. 



March 13th. — This morning being diy, I started on an ex- 

 cursion to the banks of the Rio Jaguari, where I spent some days 

 when in this part of the countiy before, my chief object being to 

 look for seeds of No. 87. On arriving at the place where it grows, 

 I found that it had not set a single fruit. On the road I col- 

 lected No. 219 [Ocymitm sp.)^ a small weedy Salvia; No. 220, 

 a tall white-flowered Composita, from wet places and margins of 

 streams; and No. 221, a climbing shrub, with purple flowers, 

 rather sparingly produced. In the evening I again experienced 



the hospitality of the fazenderos who treated me so kindly when 

 here before. 



' March lAth. — Returned to Campinas. On the road through 

 the campo, collected specimens of No. 222, an herbaceous plant 

 [Etipatoriitm sp.) ; and No. 223, a species of Lisianthiis growing 

 about 1| foot high, with pretty blue flowers. The weather has 

 been much better to-day. 



March IStft. — Made preparations to-day for starting to Itu 



