936 МВ. WEIR’S JOURNAL. 
Hii.) —this is the Cashew or Caju do campo, common everywhere, but 18 
now flowering; and No. 299 (Cuspidaria pterocarpa D. C.),a climbing 
Bignonia, with pink flowers; of this I also got a few seeds from one or 
two of last year’s capsules which still remained on the plant. 
The road crosses the chasm by a narrow wooden bridge, and, each on 
its own side of the river, the governments of the two provinces have a 
house, where an official resides with a few soldiers, who levies a heavy toll 
on all the animals that pass from one province to the other. This toll or 
duty, as it is called, has to be paid both on leaving and entering a pro- 
vince, so that a person who has just paid at one end of the bridge, is 
immediately called upon to disburse at the other also. Should he refuse, 
several tattered, shoeless, dirty, greasy-looking mulatto “soldados” will 
stop the pass with their rusty flint muskets and bayonets, All the pro- 
vincial governments in Brazil have the right of levying duties on articles 
entering their own ports, so that the baggage of travellers entering any 
port on the coast, is liable to be overhauled by the custom-house people, if 
he has come from a province other than the one the port he is entering 13 
situated in. 
Oct. 10th.— Three leagues and a half from the river Itarari we came 
to another, called the J araguácutü, which was too full to be crossed. There 
is a canoe here, and a person who ferries over travellers and their goods, 
while the animals are swum across, but, when swollen, the current of the 
river is too strong for this, there being only a single point on each side 
where it is possible for the animals to land. We had therefore to encamp 
here, to wait for the river falling. If we have no more rain, they say we 
will be able to cross to-morrow, as this river, like all the lageadas, rises and 
falls very rapidly. r 
n the road and around our encampment, I collected the following 
species to-day. No, 300 (Baccharis, n, sp. near B. oleifolia, Gard.) ; No. 
301 (Salvia rigida, Benth.); No. 309 (Hedera multiflora, D.C.); 
No. 303 (Gymnanthes, 8р.); No. 304 (Senecio icoglossus, var. araneosus) ; 
№. 305 (Bulbostylis, n. sp.); and No. 306 (Vernonia, n. sp.). às 
302, although it does not adhere to trees like our ivy at home, yet its 
partly supported by, those of other trees. 
it, it reminded me very strongly of our own “rare old 
plant." The pretty shrubby Petunia ledifolia (No. 284), which I first saw at 
Fachina, is common here, wherever the sandstone rock is near the sur- 
face, and it is now literally covered with its beautiful purple flowers. I 
hope to meet with it further south, but if not, I must certainly come back 
here for seeds. 
Oct. 11th.— We 
river are steep and are partly wooded, but only for two or three hundred yards 
from the water's edge. 
also be said to be the beginning of the river, f 
Junction of four or five rivulets, whi | 
Stone into the valley of the rive 
