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DISTRIBUTION OP PLANTS. 



(Monstera) pertusa, (No. 1); Dracontiuui of authors. Occasionally met with. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



(No. 4) ; a fourth species. 



(No. 5); a fifth species. 



(No. 6) ; a sixth species. 



Pothos (No. 9). Twining around the trunks of trees in the forest. 



• — (No. 10) ; a second twining species. 



(No. 11) ; a third twining species. 



(No. 12) ; a fourth twining species. 



(No. 13) ; a fifth twining species. 



— (No. 14) ; a sixth twining species. 



Gen. near Pothos (No. 1). Stemless; the leaves oblong-lanceolate, three or four feet in 

 length, firm, inflexible, and remarkable for their thickness. Submaritime; growing 

 among rocks, along the sea-shore. 



Gen. Pothos-like (No. 1). Stemless, with a dark-colored spa the. 



(No. 2); a second species. Epidendric, and very small; stemless, with a dark- 

 colored spathe. 



Gen. incert. (No. 1); the "cipo d'imbe." On the Organ Mountains, and only once met 



with ; long cord-like radicles hanging nearly to the ground from a tree-top, from a 



distance too great for their origin to be distinguished. 

 Juncus (No. 34). Articulated. Rare, met with in but one locality. 

 Cyperus (No. 39). The species of Cyperus various and abundant, often occupying almost 



exclusively the fresh-water marshes ; but they were not ci'itically examined. 

 Papyrus (No. 2). Large and conspicuous. Subaquatic; growing in drowned land, along 



the Piedade road. 



Scleria (No. 19). Stem weak, almost scandent, ascending full thirty feet among the 

 branches of small trees. In the swamp beyond Mage, on the Piedade road. 



(No. 20). Several normal species were met with, growing exclusively on the 



upland, in dry ground. 



? (No. 21). Some abnormal species also met with; forming apparently one or 



more distinct genera. 



Rhynchospora (No. 11). 



Fuirena (No. 5). In the Sphagnous bog, at the Eastern base of the Organ Mountains, 



on the Estrella road. 

 Fimbristylis (No. 14). Maritime?. 



Eleocharis (No. 16). One or more species, much resembling our Northern ones. 



Gen. Scirpeae (No. 1) ; a peculiar form, somewhat Dulichium-like. One or more species. 



Pharus (No. 1). 



Paspalum (No. 10). And one or more additional species. The grasses most frequently 

 met with ; and abounding especially in established clearings, belonged to the two 

 genera of Paspalum and Panicum. 



Cocos nucifera (No. 1 ; bis Polynesian Groups, to the East Indies, Hindostan, and Zanzi- 

 bar). Spoken of as planted in the Botanic Garden, or at some spot in the vicinity of 

 the city ; but not seen by myself. 



