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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 piastres, or two hundred francs, 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 arboreal, the retiniphyl- 

 lum secundiflorum-j-, 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 inani. 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 magnoliocfolia, b.jasminifolia, 

 solanum topiro, justicia pectoralis, faramea cymosa, piper jam- 

 tense, seleria hirtella, echites javitensis, lindsea javiten sis, and 

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

 have dedicated to an illustrious scientific gentleman, Leopold 

 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. i, p. 86, tab. 25. 



$ A species of siphon ia, perhaps the hevea of x<\ublet. 



