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OV LA PEROUSE. I57 



Pig. 3. The peduncle (flipes), open through- 

 out its whole length. 



Some mountains fituated to the weftward, and 

 of gradual declivity, formed a beautiful valley, 

 where their waters, after having collected in a 



eat numbef of little rivulets, went and dif- 

 harged themfelvcs into the harbour. The 

 remains of the large decayed trees, with which 

 the ground was covered, had given to thefe waters 

 a flight brown tint. 



The woods became lefs thick, and we foon 

 perceived a vaft glade, extending upwards of two 

 kilometers towards the weft. The fhrubs grow- 

 ing very clofe, and the bottoms being occupied by 

 marfhes, rendered the accefs to it difficult : we 

 not only ran the rilk of linking into the mud, 

 but we were frequently flopped by a new fpecies 

 of fcleria, which I call fcleria grandis, becaufe it 

 grows fometimes to the height of four meters ; 

 its leaves are as fharp as a piece of glafs : its 

 oval and reddifh feeds contain "a fmall oily 

 kernel, of which the parrakeets are extremely 

 fond, notwithftanding the great hardnefs of its 

 fhell. 



The fhrub the moft duTufed in thefe bottoms, 

 was a new fpecies of emhothrmm, remarkable for 

 the toughnefs of its foliage. Each leaf prefents 

 an oval form, and is a decimeter long by three cen- 

 timeters broad. 



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