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boidal^ sericeous phyllodia^ and very broad^ flat 

 leg-umes. 



LufF and Doug-las were this day taken very ill 

 with the ague. 



June 29th. — ^We found that some of our horses 

 had strayed into the scrub^ and we did not succeed 

 in finding" them until nearly twelve o'clock, and LuiF 

 and Doug-las being- no better^ Mr. Kennedy with 

 three others proceeded to examine the country in 

 advance of us. 



June oOth. — This morning- LufF was a little better, 

 but Doug-las was able to eat but little. In the 

 scrub near our camp I found a species of 3Iusa, 

 with leaves as larg-e, and the plants as hig-h, as the 

 common banana (J/, paradisiaca), with blossoms 

 and fruit — but the fruit was not eatable. I also 

 found a beautiful tree belong-ing- to the natural 

 order MyrtaceiB, producing-, on the trunk and larg'e 

 branches only, abundance of white, sweet-scented 

 flowers, larg-er than those of the common rose apple 

 (Jambosa vulgaris), with long* stamens, a very short 

 style, slig-htly two-cleft stigma, five very small semi- 

 orbicular petals, alternate with the thick fleshy 

 seg'ments of the calyx, broad lanceolate leaves, the 

 fruit four to six inches in circumference, consisting* 

 of a white fleshy, slig'htly acid substance, with one 

 larg'e round seed (perhaps sometimes more), the foot- 

 stalk about one inch lono;*. This is a most beautiful 

 and curious tree. Some specimens which I saw 

 measured five feet in circumference, and were sixty 



