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varas long costs, for the purchase of the wood, and 

 the labour of the carpenter, only sixteen piastres ; 

 but the nails, and the fitting up of the gunwales, 

 by which the boat is enlarged, double the price. 

 At the Upper Oroonoko I have seen forty pias- 

 tres, or two hundred franks, given for a canoe 

 forty-eight feet long. 



The forest, between Javita and the Canno 

 Pimichin, affords an immense quantity of gigan- 

 tic trees, ocoteas and real laurels (the third 

 group of the laurineae, the persea, has been 

 found wild only above one thousand toises of 

 height), the amasonia arborea % the retiniphyl- 

 lum secundiflorum ^, the curvana, the jacio 

 the iacifate, of which the wood is red like the 

 brasilletto, the guamufate with it's fine leaves of 

 calophyllum from seven to eight inches long, 

 the amyris caranna, and the mani. All these 

 trees (with the exception of our new genus reti- 

 niphyllum) were more than one hundred or one 



* This is a new species of the genus taligalea of Aublet. On 

 the same spot grow the bignonia magnoliafolia, b. jasmim folia , 

 solanum topiro, justicia. pectoralis, faramea cymosa, piper^'aw- 

 tense, scleria hirtella, echites javitensis, Vmdsea. javiten.sis, and 

 that curious plant of the family of the verbenacece, which I 

 have dedicated to an illustrious scientific gentleman, Leo- 

 pold von Buch, in whose first labours I participated. (See 

 Nov. Gen. vol. ii, p, 270, pi. 132, buchia plantaginea.) 

 f See our Plant. Equin., vol. 1, p. 86, tab. 25. 



% A species of siphonia, perhaps the hevea of Aublet. 



