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numerous smaller ones when coming down the sloping campos alone. We 
could see seven or eight falls from the road, and the smoke arising from 
several more. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the campos here at 
present; having been all burnt during the dry season (as the campos of 
Brazil generally are once a year), they are now covered with a fresh and 
pleasing verdure. Not that their herbage is anything like so close as our 
own greensward at home, for directly under the eye there is plenty of red 
soil visible, but looking across the country this is not seen. There is also 
less here of the hard coarse-awned grass, called “barba do bode,” which, 
growing in tufts on the campos of the interior of the province of St. Paul's, 
forms there by far the greatest bulk of the herbage. Here, however, as 
elsewhere in Brazil, if the campos are left unburnt for a couple of years, 
they become brown from the long duration of the withered stems and 
leaves, which do not lie down and allow the young sboots to grow up 
through them, as softer grasses would do, but remain erect and dure for 
years 
_ On the way I added specimens of the following species to my collection. 
None of them are worthy of remark. No. 307 (Мата hederafolia, D.C.) ; 
No. 308 (Salvia, зр.); No. 809 (Erythroxylon, зр.); No. 810 (Hyptis, sp.) ; 
and No. 311 (Lippia microphylla, Cham.). 
Oct. 12th.— We made a journey of five leagues to-day; all campo, 
except one or two capæs which the road passed by. Collected specimens of 
No. 312 (Andira, sp., not determinable); No. 313 (Vernonia (Leptosperm- 
oides), n.sp.); No. 314 (Amaryllis (Hippeastrum), sp.); No. 315 (Colliguaya, 
n. sp.); No. 316 (Momordica operculata, Lin. and No. 317 (Gesneria, 
п. sp.). No.314 is an Amaryllis from the campo; its flowers are always 
produced in twos, and are of a dirty red with a broad green blotch down 
the middle of each sepal. Its leaves are not yet produced. No. 316 is 
а Cucurbit from the campo. I have only met with a single plant of this. 
No. 317 is the Gesneria I met with first at Fachina. І got flowering 
‘Specimens to-day; the sp. is peculiar to the sandstone rock. ‘The place 
where we have halted for the night is called Silada. 
Oct. 13th.—After crossing four leagues of campo, we descended this 
afternoon the side of a rocky slope into a wooded valley, called the “ Matto 
das Fournas,” which is bounded on each side by a steep and often precipi- 
tous face of sandstone rock, and though narrow at the place we entered, 
it gradually widens towards the south-east, the direction in which we were 
travelling. The only large trees in this wood are the “ pinheiros,” and among 
the underwood the “ Congonha” grows plentifully. The leaves of this 
shrub are exported from this province for Chili, and other countries on the 
Pacific coast. After having passed through nearly a league of wood, we 
again came out on to the campo, and a league further on we arrived at a 
small group of houses called Capella. In descending into the Matto das 
Fournas we left the sandstone rock behind. The streams we have since 
crossed are all mud bottomed, and the campo is not so rich in species of 
plants. During the day I collected No. 318 (White Rose, growing wild 
in some places, probably introduced); No. 319 (Verbena, n. sp.); No. 
320 (Oxalis rupestris, St. Hil.); and No. 391 (Baccharis microcephala, 
D.C.) 
