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Hydrocotyle (No. 16). 



Araliacese. Some large trees met with; showing that the Tribe may enter in considerable 



proportion into the composition of the primeval forest. 

 Loranthus (No. 15) ; a species with red and showy flowers. On trees at the Eastern base 



of the Organ Mountains ; and occasionally met with elsewhere. 

 Manettia (No. 1). A climbing herbaceous vine. 

 Exostemma (No. 1). 



Coccocypselum (No. 1). A low herb ; the berries blue. Beyond the Organ Mountains. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



Gardenia ? (No. 4) ; Osyanthus-like, but the corolla-segments not acute. A shrub, with 

 fragrant white flowers; the tube of the corolla straight and very long, and the segments 

 somewhat contorted. Met with in two or three localities. 



Genipa ? (No. 1). A tree of medium size ; forty feet high ; from the foliage and large 

 size of the fruit, at first mistaken for one of the Guttiferae. Among the Organ Moun- 

 tains, once only met with. 



Hedyotis (No. 17). A small herbaceous plant. Intermingled with grasses in wet ground. 



(No. 18). A second small herbaceous plant. 



(No. 19). A third small herbaceous plant. One of these three species growing 



in the above-mentioned Sphagnous bog, at the Eastern base of the Organ Mountains. 

 Augustea ? (No. 1). 



? (No. 2). Ornamental; the calyx and corolla long and tubular, and both of 



them blue. In woods near the fortress at the entrance to the bay; not met with 

 elsewhere. 



Sabicea (No. 1). A climbing shrub. 



Morinda ? (No. 9). 



Guettarda (No. 3). The leaves reticulate. 



(No. 4) ; a second species. 



(No. 5) ; a third species. 



Cephaelis (No. 1). A shrub, three to five feet high. Rather frequent in the deep shade 

 of the forest. 



Palicourea (No. 1). Smooth; the inflorescence cymose, with the branching peduncles 



sanguineous. Frequent. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. 



Talinum patens, (No. 6; bis Taheiti). Having small, but rather pretty flowers. Natural- 

 ized in the outskirts of the city. 



Pereskia (No. 1). Planted in hedges; and becoming a regular normal tree ; one, by the 

 road-side between Praya Grande and San Joao, was observed to have much of the 

 aspect of the garden plum, being full thirty feet high, with the trunk ten inches in 

 diameter. 



Umbellif incert. A species met with in one locality on the rocks of the sea-coast, and 

 apparently native. (According to Gray, in his Volume on the Plants of the Expedition, 

 shown by the specimen to be only "Apium graveolens escaped from cultivation.") 



Daucus carota, (bis Australia, Austral Africa, Interior Oregon, and our Atlantic States). 

 Carrots for sale in the market; and cultivated also at March's residence. 



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