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boidal, sericeous phyllodia, and very broad^ flat 

 legumes. 



LufF and Doug-las were this day taken very ill 

 with the ague. 



Jwne 29th. — We found that some of our horses 

 had strayed into the scrub, and we did not succeed 

 in finding them imtil nearly twelve o'clock, and Luff 

 and Douglas being no better, Mr. Kennedy with 

 three others proceeded to examine the country in 

 advance of us. 



June SOth. — This morning Luff was a little better, 

 but Douglas was able to eat but little. In the 

 scrub near our camp I found a species of Musa, 

 with leaves as large, and the plants as high, as the 

 common banana (M. paradisiaca), with blossoms 

 and fruit— but the fruit was not eatable. I also 

 found a beautiful tree belonging to the natural 

 order Myrtaceee, producing, on the trunk and large 

 branches only, abundance of white, sweet-scented 

 flowers, larger than those of the common rose apple 

 {Jamhosa vulgaris), with long stamens, a very short 

 style, slightly two-cleft stigma, five very small semi- 

 orbicular petals, alternate with the thick fleshy 

 segments of the calyx, broad lanceolate leaves, the 

 fruit four to six inches in circumference, consisting 

 of a white fleshy, slightly acid substance, with one 

 large round seed (perhaps sometimes more), the foot- 

 stalk about one inch long. This is a most beautiful 

 and curious tree. Some specimens whidi I saw 

 measured five feet in circumference, and were sixty 



