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PADRE 
INDEX 
PISTIA 
Padre Torquato, i. 172 
Pagamea, i. 441 
Palaeozoic rocks of Lower Amazon, 
i. 140 
Palicourea 7'iparia, i. 72 
Pallatanga, a poor locality, ii. 224 
Palma Jagiia, i. 441 
Palms, i. 43 ; height of, i. 19 ; 
letter about, i. 225 
Panax, ii. 286 
Panicum, ii. 277 
Panicwn aiiiplex, ii. 115 
Paniaun latifolinni, i. 469 
Panure, arrival at, i. 318 
Pao Mulatto, i. 153, ii. 3, 4 
Papalanthus, i. 418 
Paper, burning his botanical, ii. 143 
Para, residence at, i. 2 ; vegetation 
near, i. 2 ; vegetable products of, 
i. 50 ; grit, i. 139 
Paramero, effects of, ii. 192 ; sound 
of, ii. 195 
Paramo de Sanancajas, ii. 230 ; 
of Tiocajas, ii. 232 
Paramos of Azuay, alpines of, ii. 
250 
Parana-miri DOS Ramos, i. 174 
Parasitical trees, i. 25 
Pariana, a grass, i. 17 
Parinari, ii. 8 ; Easter feast at, 
ii. 8 
Parkia americana, i. 424 
Parkia discolor, i. 104 
Parkinsonia aculeata, ii. 338 
Paspala, ii. 246 
Paspalum, i. 441 
Paspahini conjitgatiiDi, ii. 277 
Paspahiin pellitiifu, i, 158 
Paspalum pyraniidale, i. 109-10, 506 
Passiflora, ii. 280, 339 
Passiflora fa'tlda, i. 6 
Pastas A river, ascent of, ii. 107 ; 
dangerous descent to, ii. 157 
Patau A palm, i. 477 
Paullinia, i. 31, ii. 281, 422 
Paullinia capitata, i. 468 
Paullinia Cttpana, i. 180, ii. 450 
Paullinia pinnata, i, 162, ii. 455 
Paxitiba harrigtida, i. 307 
Payta to Chira, ii. 332 
Peccaries, a hunt of, ii. 10 
Peccary, ii. 274 
Pedis elongata, i. 157 
Peltogyne, i. 38, 53 
Penelope cristata, ii. 377 
Penipe, visit to, ii, 203 ; bridge of, 
described, ii. 219 
Peperomia, i. 33, ii. 283 ; fern-like, 
i. 6 
Peraina hirsuta, i. 441, 467 
Peridium, i. 83 
Peristeria Hiimboldtii^ i. 458 
Persea gralissima, ii. 376 
Peru, desert of Northern, ii. 327-30 
Peschiera, ii. 288 
Peschiera latijlora, i- 7i 
Petioles, inflated, ii. 397 
Petiveriacea, ii. 182 
Phascum, i. 382 
Phaseolus, ii. 245, 284 
Phaseolus monophylhis, i. 468 
Phegopteris, ii. 291 
Philodendron, ii. 277 
Philodendrons, i. 497 
Phlebodium, i. 467 
Phragmicoma, i. 383 
Phyllanthus, ii. 280 
Phyllanthtis Jliiitans, i. 115, 230, 
505 
Phyllanthns salviafolitis, i. 105 
Phyllogium fulgens, ii. 140 
Phyllogonium, ii. 100, 147 
Phymatodes Schoinbiirgkii, ii. 401 
Physalis, ii. 340 
Physocalymma, i. 265, ii. 44 
Phytelephas, ii. 6 
Phytelephas equatorialis, ii. 132 
Phytelephas inicrocarpa (fig.), ii. 133 
PiAROA Indians, i. 454 
PiASSABA palm, gregarious, i. 422 ; 
got specimens of, i. 499 
PiCHiNCHA mountain, ascent of, ii. 
214 
Picture-writing, on Rio Negro, i. 
260 ; in Casiquiari, i. 395-400 ; 
Indian, ii. 474 
Piedra del Cocui, drawing of, i. 
346 
PiLE/E, ii. 279 
PiMiCHiN, condition of road, i. 450 
Pinches Nuevo, ii. no 
PiNDO, the Jibaro settlement, ii. 14 
PiNDOBA palm, i. 66, 87 
PiperacE/*;, ii. 283 
Piptadenia Niopo, ii. 426 
PiRARUCU, i. 177 
Pistia, i. Ill 
Pistia Straliotes, i. 55 
