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(whieh in many instances have proved extremely rich) running into it. F 
ther on, the eye, passing over dense virgin forests, encounters green savanas." 
Dr. Seemann had a picket cut through the virgin forests, in order 
to gain a more ready access to the Atlantic seaboard. An official re- 
port on the first forty miles, by the surveyor, addressed to him, is here 
inserted, and contains the first botanieal information we have about 
this unknown district. The picket was cut from the Javali Gold 
Mine, and about four miles off the exploring party found several Cedro 
trees (Cedrela odorata) cut down, probably by wild Indians. Nine 
miles off— 
** commences a alge oyolal (palm grove), which extends over a plateau of 
at least four miles, the Palm-trees being so close and — that the whole 
looks as if planted. The trees were heavily laden with four to eight bunches 
of coyol nuts; and there were also many of the so-called Corozo Palms (44 
talea Cohune), sg by their gigantic size and singular flowers, — a 
beautiful ang Eleven miles off the quebreda has sufficient water to 
rive am app yurpose of ped d coral oil, which, in my ares might 
prove à sectio business where, as is here the case, it could ibe carried on on 
a large scale, there being millions of Mus oil-yielding Palms. 
At sixteen miles off— 
** There is a Reciba of wild Cacao (Theobroma Cacao), and also of the small 
Cacao (Herran rea), which you took to England with you; of course, 
conclusive root afi the ferülity of the € e also found a little Sugar-cane, 
which ma; e been planted by the India: 
Dr. tes s pages close with his second visit to Nicaragua, his 
third, from which he has only recently returned, not being alluded to. 
It was during this third visit that he was so fortunate as to discover, 
near the Javali Mine, the gigantic Aroid, on which the ‘ Gardeners’ 
. Chronicle’ had the following communication, extracted from a letter 
of Dr. Seemann to Mr. William Bull, and also the subsequent 
article :— 
my rest Sons goes, the largest flowers (ay, rather, mii 10wn in the 
Natural Order to which it belo ongs. Just imagine a p ising from a 
rhizome larg 's head, and being itself four feet high and four 
c 
carrion-like ll, and h s e dark purp 
colour as the beautiful Anonacea just mentioned. The o spéh] is reddish-brown, 
with the exception of the bets surrounding the spadix, which is yellovish-whito. 
The plant has only one leaf, which also rises from the rhizome, and after fully 
ae dies off. The wits length i the leaf is thirteen feet ens inches ; 
the petiole alone measures ten feet (all the measurements are English). 
