TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



as soon as they require it. Given at the palace the 1 2th 

 of September 1817. 



(L. S.) John Paul Bezerra. 

 Note 2. 



Arachis hyjpogcBa^ L. Besides the importance of this 

 plant to the cultivator in hot countries on account of its 

 oily seeds, it is particularly interesting to the naturalist^ 

 because it hides its flowers in the earth as soon as they run 

 to seed. There are several other instances in the family of 

 leguminous plants of similar appearances, by v^hich the 

 seed is in a manner changed into a bulb ; for example, in 

 the Vicia amiphicarpus^ Lathyrus amphicarpus, Trifolium 

 suhterraneum^ Glycine suhten^anea^ monoica^ and hetorocarpay 

 Hegetsweiler (Diss. Tab. 1812.). In the two last species, 

 the size and structure of the seeds above and under ground 

 are very different. Something similar is observed also in 

 the Milium amphicarpum^ Pursh. 



Note 3. 



Portuguese and English Commissioners, who met at 

 London on the 18th of December 1812, regulated many 

 other points which were not defined with sufficient accuracy 

 in the first act. English manufactures pay 15 per cent, 

 ad valorem on their importation into the Portuguese custom- 

 houses. However, in many articles, the Portuguese offi- 

 cers are to take, not the current value, but the price fixed 

 in the tariff {Pauta)^ as the standard for determining the 

 duty ; so that in consequence of the decline in the prices in 

 proportion to the increased supply, the import duty on 

 some articles amounts to 25 per cent, of the value. The 

 Portuguese themselves paid, before the Royal decree of 

 the 2d of May 1818, at the rate of 16 per cent. The 



