VOYAGE UP THE RIO NEGRO 263 
some tall palm or the ostrich-like plume of some 
graceful bamboo ; and all standing out in that 
relief and shining with those tints which only sun- 
set can bestow. . . . 
Dec. 18. — This morning opened with a gloomy 
but gradually clearing sky ; Uanauaca appearing 
at back of a large Genipapa (a fruit tree, Genipa 
macrophylla) on the river's brink. At a little past 
noon we reached the sitio, pleasantly situated on 
rising ground in an artificial campo, in which are here 
and there trees of Tapiriba, Bacate, Oranges, Limes, 
etc., and including three young trees of Puxin's, 
which, however, are of age to bear fruit. I met 
with a very cordial reception from the owner, Senhor 
Manoel Jacinto da Souza (Tenente de Policia), who 
offered me a room in his house in which to arrange 
my collections of the voyage, and until I could 
procure men to take me on to Sao Gabriel, for 
all those I brought with me are of Uanauaca or 
the neighbourhood, save one, and they wish now 
to work in their ro9as. 
We remained at Uanauaca until January 6. In 
the interval I arranged the collections I had made 
on the voyage and packed the greater part of them 
into a case which I left with Senhor M. Jacinto to 
be forwarded to Para. 
I made also two excursions, one to an inundated 
campo on the borders of a lake on the opposite side of 
the river, now dry and adorned with bright blue 
flowers of a Lysianthus, having the aspect of Ca7n- 
panula rapunculus. The other was to an elevated 
campo on the same side as Uanauaca, much resem- 
bling Umirisal at Barra, and in the adjacent caapoera 
I gathered the Cocura-a^u. 
