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more than we had imagined to prevent this ani- 

 mal from coming any nearer to us. 



I had a few days before found the upper jaw 

 of a pretty large quadruped, of the carnivorous 

 clafs. 



As foon as the day appeared we followed the 

 banks of the lake, quite cloie to which we 

 remarked five iflots covered with trees, form- 

 ing an agreeable contraft with the fmooth 

 furface of this great fheet of water. 



We favv, for the firfl time in this country, 

 lbme quails, which flew to a great diflance. 



After a few hours walk to the north-weft, we 

 found, on a fmall eminence and under the fhade 

 of Tome very large trees, two huts, of the form 

 of thofe which we had already feen elfewhere : 

 they were in perfect repair, and it appeared to 

 us that they had been recently inhabited. 



I gathered a beautiful plant which forms a 

 new genus, very diftincl; from all thofe which 

 have been hitherto defcribed. It is one of the 

 hides with two ftamina. I have given it, on ac- 

 count of this Angularity, the name of diplarrena : 

 its affinity to the moroca genus has induced me 

 to defignate it by the name of d'iflarrena moroea. 



The bivalved fpathe contains feveral flowers, 

 which come out one after the other, when they 

 are ready to blow. They fade il ill much quicker 

 than thofe of the his and the morasa ; and I 



fhould 



