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vanced, I went out оуег some of the campo in the neighbourhood of the 
fazenda, and collected No. 331 (Monnina resedioides, St. Hil.); No. 
332 (Polygala Moquiniana, Camb.); No. 399 (Turnera lanceolata, 
Camb.); and No. 334 (Euphorbia, sp.) None of these species are of 
any interest, except botanically. | 
The steading of the fazenda of Cachambú is prettily situated near the 
junction of the river Cingas with another smaller stream. The latter 
flows past the front of the house at the distance of a few hundred yards. 
The space between the river and the house is occupied as a garden, and is 
planted with orange, peach, jaboticaba, and other fruit-trees. Part of this 
space was also planted with coffee, this being almost the only place in this 
part of the country where it would grow, but the frost last year was very 
severe, and killed all the trees to the ground. They are still standing dry 
and leafless, but still retaining the blighted remains of an excellent crop 
of fruit. 
The surrounding country is campo, with just sufficient diversification to 
make it something like an English park. I have already remarked the 
great beauty of the scenery among these campos. Every turn of the 
head—every hill-top reached—presents new combinations of sloping green 
and frowning rock ; of pine trees, scattered or in groups, or rearing their 
dark flat heads over masses of lighter green foliage in the campos; an 
of rivers of the purest water rushing over their rocky channels, each with 
its hundred cascades, its clear pools, and foaming rapids. These ever- 
varying landscapes have all been planted by nature, and would be worthy 
of the study of a landscape gardener, or a painter either, if any such were 
here to benefit by them. 
Oct. 26th.—Out on the campo nearly all day. In the campos the 
tree fern No. 885 (Balantium Sellowianum, Presb.) is common here. 
This, and other like species, are often used by the people in this 
part of the country to fence in their gardens, being planted in lines, and 
so close as to touch each other. Specimens of No. 336 (Croton, sp.); No. 
337 (Diplusodon, n. sp.); No. 338 (Ipomea, ѕр.); and No. 339 (Petunia 
ovalifolia Micos, var. pulchra), 1 also collected to-day. The last of 
these is a purple Petunia, something like the sorts used in England for 
bedding. | 
Oct. 27th.—The people here have been very busy to-day, collecting the 
cattle from the campos, lassoing and setting apart those fit for the market. 
I went out with them to see the lassoing, and to collect any plants I might 
meet with. The species I collected were the following. No. 340 (Tran- 
gula polymorpha, Reiss), a shrub from сароез; No. 341 (Lobelia cam- 
porum, var. Lundiana), a herbaceous Lobelia or Siphocamphylis from 
the margins of streams. The roots of this species creep under the surface 
of the soil, sending up numerous shoots; its flowers are orange scarlet 
outside and yellow within, but it is not easy getting a good specimen in 
flower, for it is much eaten by the cattle. The plant grows a foot, or a 
little more than a foot, high. It might succeed as a bedding plant in 
England. No. 342 (Hypericum denudatum, St. Hil) a herb species 
from the campo; No. 848 (Неа microphylla), a shrub from, campos ; 
No. 344 (Cephalophora, Actinella, т. sp.), from the campo; №. 345 
