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aes. Among the more iniportlay trees. are. a 
Lauraceze, and Ficuses, intermixed with and overtopped by | 
magnificent palms, among which is the Moriche- palm, 
Mauritia flexuosa; there are no woody hanes. Beyond - of 
the region of the floods are the Ete- or Guacu-forests, in - 
which the prevalent forms are the dusky Lauracez, with the » ts 4 
brazil-nut, Lertholettia, covered everywhere by stout lianes. : 
The forests on the Rio Negro differ from those near the 
Amazon in the rarity of palms and lianes. The natural — 
products of all these forests are unbounded :—brazil-— 
nut, caoutchouc, cocoa, vanilla, sarsaparilla, with valuable ° 
woods, vegetable fibres, and medicinal plants in the greatest | ‘ 
variety. 
19. Zhe Brazilian Region. 
Along the whole of the south-east coast of ‘Brake 
stretches a chain of mountains, the Serra do Mar, rising to 
an elevation of 7,000 feet, the slopes of which are exposed _ 
to the trade-wind, and collect a considerable amount of 4 
moisture. This is succeeded in the intenor by a broad | 
table-land consisting of argillaceous slate, deprived | oy 4 
the Serra do Mar of the Atlantic moisture, and therefore _ 
covered everywhere, except where there is running water 
or bogs, by savannahs, called in Brazil ‘campos.’ Here, 
in the southern summer, the rainy period produces, as. at 3 
by magic, a vegetation which is dormant during the dry 
- season, the alternation being exhibited espacial in the | 
widely distributed savannah-forests, the ‘catingas.’ The 
campos are naturally divided into a northern plain, 
central table-land, and southern tracts beyond the tropi 
In the northerly campos, as in the llanos north of 
ra eae the savannah- -grasses flourish with pa lone | 
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