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and has lately had a letter informing him that the plant was 

 quite new and undescribed. 



June )l%nd, — Had a long ramble along the side of the small 

 river Jundiahj, which flows through tho fazenda of Senlior 

 Tibiri^a. On a branch of a tree overhanging the river I met 

 with an immense mass of the Cattleya No. 121, with no 

 fewer than 90 stems in flower. One of them, which I took 

 for a specimen, had 13 flowers upon it, but only 4 of them 

 were actually open. Among the brushwood on the river side I 

 also saw some plants of BurUngtonia decora in flower. Nos. SSo 

 (Baccharis sj>,) and 256 {Eupatorium sp.) grow everywhere, 



Collected also specimens of No. 257 [Hyptis sj?.), a herbaceous 

 labiate about 4 feet high. It grows in the wood. 



June 23r^Z.— -Went to Itu, and returned to the Salto in the 

 evening. On the waycpllected specimens of No. 958, a shrubby 

 labiate 7 and 8 feet high. 



June 2-ith to HQth, — Travelling to Peracicaba. Saw nothing 

 worth collecting. 



June 2QtK — Arrived in Peracicaba this afternoon. Here I 

 have got a fevv seeds to look for, especially those of No. 135 

 [Portlandia sp.), which I hope to get a good lot of, for this is a 

 handsome flowering shrub. 



Jime 21th.' — I have collected some of the seeds of No. 135 



to-day. They are just beginning to get ripe. I have taken all that 



were ripe on the plants ; I have examined and left those that are 



unripe until my return. Two insects have made great ravages 



among the seeds of this ; one of them a grub, the other a small 



grey weevil. On some of the plants they have not left a single 



good capsule. 



June 30^/t.— Walked several leagues to-day, to the campo, to 



look for seeds of No. 'jill {Clttoria sp,), but found that every 



vestige of the plant had disappeared, either from having been 



eaten by cattle or from some other cause equally destructive, 



Jidy Ist. — Left Peracicaba, and arrived late in the evening at 



Eio Claro. 



Jidy Und. — Went out in an unsuccessful search after seeds 



of No. 136 {Cuphcea sp). The plants are all dried up, and the 



geeds fallen. 



Went through part of the forest adjoining the Eio Claro, but 

 found nothing'' worth while. Tlie Malvaceous plant No. 265 

 {Pavonia sp) grows here, and I collected a few seeds of it ; 



but it is scarcely worth sending home. 



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