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hills, we met with no reward for the arduous climb ; 

 and with fever on me, I regretted the excursion. 



Just at this point of the river, we met with a passion, 

 flower, quite new to me, which, if it would but grow by 

 the coast, would be a most desirable garden ornament. 

 Unfortunately no seeds were to be found on the plants. 

 The vine was of stout habit, with ovate-oblong 

 leaves, and stiff flowers, with an extremely fragrant 

 scent ; corolla and calyx white ; corona yellow on top and 

 pink inside, stiff and much divided into fibrils, but of a 

 deep, cup-shaped form; stamens and pistil greenish 

 yellow. 



We ran down the river by easy stages to Itabru, 

 where I was obliged to camp for a few days owing to 

 the extreme weakness and the violent nausea and 

 retching which accompanied the fever. The taxidermist 

 too, who had been suffering slightly from the samecausei 

 became quite prostrated ; and as the work of the expe- 

 dition was thus brought to a complete stand still, I 

 judged it wiser to return to Coomacka, where we 

 arrived on the 29th ; and being quite unable to carry on 

 any work, we took steamer for New Amsterdam. 



This had been my first experience of fever while 

 travelling in the interior; and, unfortunately, it was of 

 such severity as to render the close of the expedition 

 absolutely barren of results. During the greater part 

 of the trip, however, we had been fairly successful, so 

 that a large and miscellaneous 'colle6lion had secured 

 the expedition from being a failure. 



