53^ REMIJIA INDEX 
Remijia, i. 433, 440, ii. 405 
Reniijia physophora, ii. 396 
Revolution, in Peru, ii. 77-9; in 
Ecuador, ii. 251 
Rhacopilum, ii. 100 
Rhacopihiui polythrhichivi, ii. 292 
Rhacopihim tomentostim, ii. 292 
Rhamnus, ii. 249, 337 
Rhexia leptophylla, i. 468 
Rhipidopteris, ii. 290 
Rhizobolea, i. 422 
Rhynchospora, i. 468 
Ribeiro, H. de, ii. 462 
RicciA, i. 115 
Rice, gathering wild, i. 235 
RiOBAMBA, ii. 213 ; visits Dr. Taylor 
at, ii. 190 ; fatiguing journey to, 
ii. 191 ; description of, ii. 196, 
203 ; snowy peaks seen from, ii. 
199 ; with Dr. J. Taylor, ii. 232 
Rio Negro, entrance of, i. 200 ; 
voyage up, i. 259 ; voyage down, 
i. 487 ; plants seen during voyage 
down, i. 494-5 
RiO Verde, arrival at, ii. 160 ; cas- 
cade of, ii. 161 
River-banks, description of, i. 234 
River voyage, enjoyment and perils 
of, i. 276 
Rivers, as affecting health, i. 117 
Road from Pimichin to Javita, i. 
450 
Roads, none in Ecuador, ii. 224 
Rocella tinctoria, ii. 320 
Rochefort on medicine -men, ii. 
432 
Rock, rarely seen in Andes, ii. 235 
Rocks in Aripecuni, i. 100 ; in the 
Casiquiari, i. 396 
Roots, of palms, exserted, i. 22 ; 
aerial, i. 24 
RouPALA sp., ii. 182 
Rubber, how produced, i. 511 ; 
price in 1849, i. 511; increased 
use of, i. 512; how prepared, i. 
515; export from Para, i. 515; 
supply in the Amazon valley in- 
exhaustible, i. 516 
Rubber-collecting, i. 185 
Rubiace^ at Tarapoto, ii. 99 
Rubiads, abundance of, i. 42 
Rubia Relbouji, ii. 287 
Rubus, ii. 284 
RUDGEA, i. 468 
Rumex, ii. 264 
RUPPRECHTIA, ii. 402 
Riipprechtia Jamesoni, ii. 405 
RuYSCHiA, i. 433 
Sacred drum, ii. 417 
St. John, Feast of, i. 246-54 
Salix cinerea, ii. 339 
Salix Humboldtiana, i. 60, 106, 504, 
ii- 3, 7, 336 
Salsaparilla, ii. 243; how ob- 
tained, i. 312, 316 
Salting an ox, i. 462 
Salvertia convallarioides, i. 159 
Salvia, ii. 249 
Salvinia, i. i ii 
SalvinI/E, i. 506 
Salvinia hispida, i. 83 
Sanancajas, paramo of, ii. 192 
San Carlos, famine at, i. 348 ; 
danger from Indians at, i. 348-52 ; 
excessive damp at, i. 381 ; casa 
real of, i. 472 ; effect of spirits 
on Indians of, i. 474-5 ; the 
recent growth of, i. 475 ; thunder- 
storms at, i. 484 
San Custodio, i. 431 
Sandstone of Lower Amazon, i. 137 
San Fernando de Atabapo, i. 
451 ; its inhabitants, i. 452 ; to 
Maypures, i. 453 ; return to, i. 
462 
Sangay, explosions of, heard at Puca- 
yacu, ii. 129 
Sanguisorbe^, ii. 285 
San Jose, old painting of, i. 455 
San Regis, ii. 7 
Santa Cruz, on Casiquiari, i. 391 
Sta. Isabel, i. 425-30 
Santander, deserted pueblo, ii. 109 
Santander, Spruce's account of, ii. 
345 ; his letter to Spruce, ii. 347, 
349-52 
Santarem, i. 62 ; voyage to, i. 54 ; 
river at, i. 64 ; campos at, i. 65 ; 
vegetation at, i. 66-72, mistletoes 
at, i. 68 ; residence at, i. 108 ; 
inundations at, i. 113; sickness 
at, i. 117; explorations at, i. 
119 
Sao Gabriel, arrive at, i. 286 ; 
criminals at, i. 293 ; views of, i. 
I 296-7 ; in 1854, i. 493 
I Sao Jeronymo, residence at, i. 319 
