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Palm, incert. (No. 1). Thirty feet high ; the fronds radiating in all directions, down- 

 wards, upwards, and laterally. Frequent. 



G-en. Palmac. (No. 1) ; thirty feet high; the fruit much resembling a grape, and having 

 a pulpy coating with a thin skin. Frequent along the Piedade road ; the bunches of 

 fruit collected, and oifered for sale in the market. 



Gen. Palmac. (No. 1). Stemless; the fruit dry (not pulpy), disposed in a spike. On 

 submaritime sands along the sea-coast, rather frequent. 



Gen. Palmac. (No. 1); in flower at the time of our visit. The trunk about thirty feet 

 high. Submaritime, growing on the upland. 



Gen. Palmac. (No. 1). Twenty feet high, with the trunk rather slender, and the fronds 

 slightly pendent. Submaritime ; growing in a scattered manner throughout the man- 

 grove swamps of the Estrella estuary. 



(No. 2). 



(No. 3). 



Gen. Palmac. (No. 1). Thirty feet high; the fruit somewhat resembling an oak-apple, 

 being roundish, an inch and a half in diameter, and covered with a dry shell. Ob- 

 served along the Piedade road ; the fruit collected and offered for sale in the market. 



Palm incert. (No. 1). Slender-stemmed, five feet high. Abounding on the crest of the 

 mountain-ridge visited at Tijuca. 



(No. 2). Slender-stemmed, five feet high. Growing on the summit of the Es- 

 trella Peak of the Organ Mountains. 



(No. 3). Slender-stemmed, five feet high. Abounding on the crest of the Or- 

 gan Mountains, visited from the residence of Padre Luiz. — Nearly all of these sixteen 

 Palms were identified in Martius's Work, which I examined at Kio Janeiro; but as I 

 took no notes at the time, I am unable now to quote their names. 



Typha (No. 5). Seeming a peculiar species. Abounding in the submaritime marshes 

 along the Estrella estuary ; observed also at the Lagoa de Freitas. 



(Colocasia No. 5) ; Caladium of authors. 



( No. 6) ; Caladium of authors. The leaves very large, measuring three feet by 



two, not including the petiole. Frequent on the Organ Mountains, 



Caladium hederaceum, (No. 1). Forming a shrub, its slender, upright stem being 

 woody and six feet high ; the leaves hastate. Abounding on submaritime sands, and 

 on steep, rocky acclivities exposed to the sea; also met with in one locality far inland, 

 beyond the Organ Mountains. (A transverse section of the stem presented no traces 

 of wood-radii). 



(No. 2) ; a second species. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



Alpinia. " Globba " of authors. Introduced. 



Musa paradisiaca, (bis Polynesian Groups, East Indies, Hindostan, Zanzibar, and Egypt) ; 

 the banana. Abundantly cultivated in the district between the sea and the Organ 

 Mountains. At the elevation of "3100 feet" in the Piedade Gap, Mr. March had 

 been unable to succeed with the banana, the fruit proving uniformly worthless. 



Dracasna terminalis, (bis Polynesian Groups, and the East Indies). In gardens. 



Ananas (No. 1; bis Polynesian Groups, East Indies, Zanzibar, Australia, &c.); the pine- 

 apple. Met with only on the sands of the sea-shore. 



