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Poly podium pendulum, Sw. 

 Lomaria procera, Spreng. 



Blechnum poly pod io ides [B. uuilaterale] (E). A more beautiful form 

 than that cultivated under this name at Kew. With me the young fronds 

 take the same brilliant ruddy and pink coloration that they displayed in 

 their native haunts. It is very common, growing on the wet rock-cuttings 

 by roadsides. Altitude 2,500 feet. 



Anemia tomentosa, Sw. 



Lycopodium reflexum, Lam. 



Lycopodium cernuum, Linn. — I also gathered this in Jamaica. 



Bubus roscufolius, Sm. (?) — This Himalayan plant is at least allied, if 

 not identical, with the "wild Strawberry" of Petropolis roadsides. This 

 fruit is sweet, but watery, and lacking flavour. It is not cultivated any- 

 where. The leaf is like a Blackberry, and the fruit more like a Raspberry 

 than anything else. 



Cuphca sjneata, var., Cav. 



Jussicea longifolia, DC. 



Fuchsia sp. — A small-leaved sub-scandent form. 

 Bkynchanthera sp. 



Begonia sanguinea, Raddi ? — I gathered seeds. 



Begonia sp. — Flowers small, white, in crowded heads on long stems. 

 Foliage large, thick, tomentose. Plants 4-6 feet high. 



Lobelia tliapsoidea, Schott. — A very striking plant like an Asphodel, 

 growing in marshy places. Height about 8 feet. Flowers purplish and 

 rosy-red. Flowering in February and March. The seeds I gathered proved 

 infertile. 



Thyrsacantha sp. 



Lycium sp. ? — An injured specimen, difficult to determine. 



Benealmia cxaltata, Linn. f. 



Billbcrgia pyramidalis, Lindl. 



Tinantia fugax, Scheidw. ? — Common on roadsides. 



Dichorisandra sp. — By the roadside near the " Punta de Hierro," 

 about 300 feet below the summit of the Sierra. 



Epipliyllum truncation. — I gathered this hanging down from the roof 

 of a cave, or grotto, where we lunched. 



Tradescantia sp. — Flowers pink, small, flowering in February by the 

 roadsides along the " Rua de Westphalia," near Petropolis. Common. 



Cocos Wcddclliana.— Common in gardens. 



Solanum Worsleyi [W. Watson in ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' 1900, xxvii., 

 p. 18, fig. 5]. A sub-scandent plant whose red fruits are eaten (after 

 cooking) as "hors-d'oeuvre," and possess tonic and astringent properties. 

 Can be cultivated out of doors, in good seasons, like the Tomato, and 

 makes a decorative conservatory plant. 



Ifcd ycli turn coronarium (H. maximum of some). — Common in damp 

 places at the sea level, especially round Maua. 



Musa sanguinea. — Common in gardens, flowering in February. 



Sauclirzia nobilis.— In the forest. Some forms are plain in the leaf, 

 others well variegated and veined. Fairly common. 



Tree. I cms are plentiful, growing generally 5-8 feet high, and generally 

 resembling those of Jamaica. 



