SIO 



TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



woods. Though these meadows do not charm the 

 eye with the fresh and pleasing verdure of our 

 northern pastures, they astonish the observer by 

 the gay variety and novelty of their vegetable 

 forms. On the hard soil, generally a stiff red clay, 

 mixed with fragments of quartz, there are detached 

 rank bushes of greyish green hairy grasses, at 

 greater or less intervals from each other : between 

 them grow an infinitude of the prettiest herbaceous 

 rubiaceae, malpighia, apocyneae, and compositse, 

 of the greatest variety of colour, and flowers of 

 elegant forms.* In places where among these 

 humble children of Flora a more luxuriant vege- 

 tation appears, there are single thick-barked trees t, 

 which seldom rise above fifteen or twenty feet in 



* Declieuxia satureoides, spergulasfolia, myricoides, cenan- 

 thoides, cordigera, mollis nob. ; Hamelia, Rhexiae et Melastomae 

 herbaceae et Banisteria sp. plur. ; Gaudichaudia tuberosa, 

 triphylla, marginata ; Croton fulvum, antisiphiliticum nob.; 

 W^edelia longifolia, sessilifolia, cordifolia ; Lippia bracteosa ; 

 Calystegia campestris ; Bignonia micrantha ; Cnemidpstachys 

 myrtilloides, herbacea (Tragia corniculata Vahl.) ; Echites 

 campestris, velutina ; Oxypetalum flavum, erectum ; Bailleria 

 graveolens ; Vernonia grandiflora, rosmarinifolia nob. ; Kleinia 

 Poropliyllum W. ; Molina sessiliflora Vahl. ; Bidens asperula ; 

 Eryngium Lingua Tucani ; Celastrus cymosus ; Hedera ter- 

 nata ; Hydrophylax valerianoides ; Sauvagesia ovata ; Clitoria 

 angustifolia ; Mimosa hirsutissima ; Sweetia nitida nob. 



■f The most important trees of these campos are — Laplacea 

 parviflora nob. (Pao de S, Joze). Gomphia, Malpighia, Spixia 

 (Leandri), Ternstrcemia, Marcgrafia, Rapanea,Vochisia, Qualea, 

 Salventia, Solanum, Byrsonima dasyantha, mycrophylla H., 

 Erythroxylon havanense Jacq., Clethra tinifolia Sw., species of 

 Clusia, Havettia, Panax, Melastoma, Rhexia, Myrtus, Psidium, 

 Schinus, Annona, &c. 



