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yellow centre, and a whitish tube. The roots ip HOM (not catkin-like rhi- 
zomes, as in the Achimenes tribe) ; and in habit the plant gion the only 
other mon isa a the genus (C. cupreata, Hate gf hich, however, has 
hairy ova It nd at the Pavon 
8 d 
end ofi the J emm ‘Mine where it grew in only a very ill spot—shady groves 
on the banke of a rivulet Although we became afterwards well acquainted 
with ape “vegetation “of the dist rict, we never met the plant anywhere but 
there ; we had —€— id ag Ton. md planted them in a 
cedi Wardian case, fire wa the very spot where the Cyrtodeira 
grew, for the purpose of cde *. E Te potui readily took root, 
and on our departure a boy was engaged to carry them on his saddle before 
i e o i t on well 
ah . e 
Mine half looked. w pdt enough "till within two miles of the port of embarkation, 
when the waggon in which, for dn ter safety's sake, they had been placed, 
ent i o time ix i 
were d yed, and these were so nek injured that arrive 
don, and handed the Mr. , of Chelsea, the enterprising plant 
merchant, only one was found to be in a sound condit but that one has 
become the progenitor of a numerous race, which now ornaments our hot- 
houses." 
In subsequent chapters Dr. Seemann details his second visit to 
Nicaragua. About La Merced, on the Lake of Nicaragua, and— 
* I may add, in many other parts of the c Meg I spasi a goodly number 
Ed the trees which yield the dyewood known by the name of Fustic vi i 
u^ mee It belongs to the Mulberry iode and is termed 
yt ives. The fruit is sweet and edible. The wood might be 
pro Pei let f prie port if there were any good ways of communication 
as it fetches sometimes as ae as £5 per ton in Liverpool. At present no- 
tices it^ 
At p. 196 an ascent of Peña Blanca is described, which is the 
highest known peak of Chontales, and a: be about 2500 feet above 
the sea-level. 
Bien oo of Peña — is distinct from that of any other moun- 
tain-t 1 have n in Chontales. I foun und a fine purp lee eters arlet 
wirst Orchid LC eihera tts and a crimson Maclean o my 
— many of the woody plants had been destroyed by fre yp uy last 
t the gentleman who had oo the flame was with m d was some- 
vesci ished when, i instead of receiving kaod oen be vig oe 
cleared the view, I told him it was KU standing as sp did on the Ln 
of a yawning precipice, that the enraged botanist within me was somewhat 
mollified by my appreciation of the fine landscape iid he had, as it were, 
«Petia Blan very fine vi see any ri 
though they ream ge themecte es into the y Pen du. deci hnr Frid ‘the 
ee a ceni ewfields ; See Oe e Javali lode of auri- 
‘ous quartz rocks oneal miles, and distinctly trace the various branches 
