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is very succulent, I am afraid they will all perish before I get down to the 
coast. The under vegetation in these woods is very rank, and is almost 
the same as that of the Serrao of the Tiete. I hoped to have found some 
fine foliaged plants in the deep shade, but have met with none, even the 
Physurus, which is occasional in all the forests in St. Paul's, is absent here, 
as also is the Cattleya, so common there. Indeed, there are scarcely any 
orchids, the most common being a Stanhopea. Large trees of the Bou- 
gainvillea abound. The under vegetation consists chiefly of a large species 
of Urtica, of the fibres of which the Indians make cords for their bows 
and the pieces of cloth the women wear ; two or three species of Piperacee, 
Aroide, Calatheas, Cannas, &c. 
Dec. 17th.—I collected specimens of №. 429 (Momordica carinata, 
Vell.), a cucurbit; and No. 430 (Cleome gigantea, Linn.), a tall rank Cleome, 
with dirty-green flowers. 
Dec. 18th.— Arrived at the colony of Jatahy, a miserable group of 
about a score of huts, standing in the centre of a small clearing in the 
forest, on the north margin of the river Tibagi. The inhabitants con- 
sist chiefly of a few individuals of the Guarda Nacional, and a few slaves 
belonging to the Government. There are also a few Indians of a tribe 
us, 
- 26th.—Had a dangerous river to cross to-day, called the Rio das 
