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which the predominating stratum is sand and limestone. The 

 Cacti are not so numerous here, and the extensive plains are 

 ornamented with bushes, the joazeiro, and two kinds of palm 

 (the indaia, Attalia compta M., and the wax palm, Corypha 

 cerifera Ait.) ; yet sometimes groups of Opuntia may be seen, 

 and enormous Cerei, on hills exposed to the sun, the latter 

 with stems frequently 18 in. in diameter at their base. Further 

 north than Rio Parnahyba, the Cacti become more rare, and 

 consequently, in the forests on the banks of the Amazon, they 

 no longer form a picturesque and decided character in the land- 

 scape. I do not remember to have seen a stone, or a single 

 plant of Cereus, in the uninviting, dense, shady, and damp forests; 

 but here and there a few species of Peresk zVz are seen in the 

 hedges, and Rhipsales and Epiphylla, and the large-leaved 

 ^rbideae, BromehVe, and Orchideae on the stems of the old trees, 

 filling up the narrow spaces between them. In the garden at 

 Para, alone, I found, to my great astonishment, some Cerei 

 planted. 



Art. IV. Botanical, Floricultural, and Arbor icultural Notices of 

 the Kinds of Plants newly introduced into British Gardens and 

 Plantations, or which have been originated in them ; together with 

 additional Information respecting Plants (whether old or new) already 

 in Cultivation : the whole intended to serve as a perpetual Supplement 

 to the " Encyclopedia of Plants," the " Hortus Briiannicus," the 

 " Hortus Lignosus," and the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britan- 

 nicum." 



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JSANUNCULA'CEa:. 

 1596. PMO'illA 28364 BrowmV Bot. Reg., 1839, 30. 



Cappariddcecs or Sapinddcece. 



Diplopeltis Httgelii Endl. A beautiful plant, " with corymbose panicles of 

 pink flowers, resembling those of a Cleome." It was raised by Mr. Toward 



