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Botanical Reminiscences, 
from Columbia, and will no doubt form one of tbe brightest 
ornaments in our glass-houses.* 
I intended to enter the lower forest, but was prevented doing 
so, as no human being would have been able to penetrate this 
chaos of Ferm, Scitamineen, entwined in the trees, whose 
branches in this altitude branched oif close from the ground, 
and standing quite close together. 
As poor as the valley was also the higher region, as far as 
the Fauna was considered. Only a few small birds of the 
genera Fringilla and Trochilus (Trochilus anais, Less.), and 
a species of the genus Diglossa D, major ^ Cab. ; and Arremon 
2Jersonatus, Cab. ; which were swiftly slipping through the 
lower shrubs, and eagerly searching for the few insects which 
live here, were the sole representatives of the Fauna I met 
with. Everything was still ; there was no sign of animal 
life. Except the dull thunder of the waterfalls nothing broke 
the deep repose. 
* I mention only a few representatives of the Boraima flora : —Rondeletia 
capitata^ Benth. ; Chiococca nitxda, Benth. ; Perama humilisy Benth. ; Echites 
angustifolia, Benth. ; subcarnosa, Benth. ; Waltheria mscoszssuna, St. Hil. ; 
Vernonia dichocarpha, Less.; ehretifolia, Benth.; tricholepis, Dec.; Eupatorium 
scabrum, Lin., fil. ; Lipochaeta seaberrima, Benth. ; Spilanthes Foeppigii, Dec. ; 
Galea divaricata^ Benth. ; Achyrocline Jlaccida, Benth. ; Gnaphalium americanuwi^ 
Mill. ; Leria nutans^ Dec. ; Syptis membranacea, Benth. ; simplex^ St. 
Hil. ; Marsypianthes hyptoides. Mart. ; Ormosia coecinea^ Jack. ; Eimorphandra 
macrostachya, Benth. ; Hirtella scabra^ Benth. ; Ghaetogastra gracilis^ Dec. ; 
hypericoides, Dec ; divaricata^ Dec. ; glomerata. Mart. ; Macairea rigida, 
Benth. ; parvifolia^ Benth. ; MicroUeia myrtndea, Chamss. ; taxifolia^ Benth. ; 
Rhynchanthera monodynama, Dec. ; Eiplochita Fothergilla, Dec. ; parvijlora, 
Benth. ; Tococa cristata^ Benth. ; Roraimae^ Benth. ; PLenriettea succosa, Dec. ; 
Glidemia capitata^ Benth. ; spicata^ Dec. ; pustulata, Dec. ; rgrijiora, Benth ; 
TadulaefoUa, Benth.; desmantha, Benth.; JSPiconia alata^ Dec.; nitens^ Benth.; 
revoluta^ Benth. ; Myrcia subcordata, Dec. ; ferruginea, Dec. ; JJtricularia 
Sumboldtiiy Schomb. ; HelUamphora^ nutans^ Benth.; Gypripcdium lAndleyanufn, 
Schomb.; Leiothamnus Elisabethae^ Schomb., sp. nov. ; EncholiriuM Augustae^ 
Schomb., sp. nov. ; Gomphia dura, Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; Ternstrcemia ruhicunda^ 
Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; punctata, Sw. ; Gaultheria cor difolia, Humb. Bonp. ; 
TEeinmannia ovahs, Pav. ; guianensis, Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; Yaccinium puberuluvn^ 
Klotzsch, sp. nov.; Thibaudia nutans, Klotzsch, sp. nov.; Isertia Tiypoleuca, 
Benth. ; Glusia cucuUata, Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; alba, Lin. ; macropoda, Klotzsch, 
sp. nov. ; Rhopala SchomburgJcii,, Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; Ref aria SchomburgTciana, 
Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; grandijlora, Humb. Bonp. ; guianensis, Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; 
Bonnetia sessilis, Benth. ; Archytea muUiflora, Benth. ; Stegilepis guianensis, 
Klotzsch, sp. nov. ; and Saxo Fridericia Regalis, Schomb., gen. nov. 
