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DISTRIBUTION OP PLANTS. 



Rollinia (No. 1). 



Xylopia? (No. 1). A few other Anonacece were met with; like the preceding, all of 



them either shrubs or small trees. 

 Cissampelos ? (No. 1). A vine. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. A vine. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. A vine. 



(No. 4) ; perhaps a fourth species. Also a vine. 



Nectris (No. 1). Aquatic ; growing in pools near Mage, a few miles beyond the landing- 

 place at Piedade. 



Nymphtea? (No. 5). Nymphgea-like leaves observed on the surface of the water in the 

 Estrella estuary, and large bluish flowers ; but we did not approach near enough to 

 procure specimens. 



Capparis (No. 25). A shrub. Submaritime ; and rather frequent along the sea-shore. 



(No. 26); "a second species." Found by Mr. Brackenridge "on Mount Cor- 



covado." 



Cratseva (No. 1). A handsome shrub. Met with in two localities, both of them a short 

 distance only from the sea-coast. 



Cleome (No. 8). The flowers purple. One of the most abundant plants in open situa- 

 tions; growing in clearings, and along the banks of streams, especially in low ground 

 subject to inundation. 



Calyptrion (No. 1). A woody vine. Found by Mr. Brackenridge. 



Glossarrhcn ? (No. 1). Herbaceous, upright, one to two feet high. Frequent at Tijuca 

 and on the Organ Mountains, growing in the forest. 



Sauvagesia (No. 1). A foot high. In a remarkable Sphagnous bog, at the Eastern base 

 of the Organ Mountains, on the E.strella road. 



Securidaca (No. 1). A woody vine, with handsome foliage. 



(No. 2). A shrub. 



Polygala (No. 16). A small herbaceous species, resembling P. verticillata. 



(No. 17). Arborescent, becoming a small tree, thirty feet high, with the trunk 



nine inches in diameter; the flowers rather large, purple and showy. Beyond the 



Organ Mountains, rather frequent along the road to the Mines. 

 corisioides, St. Hil.; (No. 18). The leaves Crassula-like, succulent and linear. 



On the sea-beach, in front of a lagoon called the " Lagoa de Freitas," rare. 

 (No. 19) ; a fourth species. 



Nov. gen.? laureola, (No. 1); Polygala of St. Hil. A shrub, two feet high, with large 

 leaves. Growing in the deep forest. 



Anona (No. 8). A tree of medium size, with large flowers and fruit. A single stock, 

 planted at the intersection of the Botanic garden road and the Lagoa de Freitas. 



Argemone Mexicana ? (No. 1 ; bis Hawaiian Islands, Hindostan, and Zanzibar). Grow- 

 ing as a weed ; and evidently introduced. 



Cruciferae. Several well-known European species naturalized ; and growing as weeds 

 around the city of Rio Janeiro. 



Bixa Orellana, (No. 1 ; bis Hawaiian Islands, East Indies, Hindostan, and Zanzibar) ; 

 the arnotto. A single stock, planted in a hedge-row, by the road-side. 



Hibiscus esculentus, (bis Mocha and Egypt) ; the ochra. Cultivated. 



