l82 TlMEHRI. 
ered by a dwarf vegetation never more than two or three 
feet high. 
The shrubs on the part of the ledge below the ravine 
seem to be generally much the same as on the forest 
slope ; but among these a few new ones appear. Among 
the latter were the very beautiful Drimys granatensis 
Mutis [No. 242"] with its very beautiful white flowers, 
like pendent wood-anemones ; a new and beautiful 
Microlicia {Microlicia bryanthoides, Oliver, N. sp. [No. 
239]) and several more species of Psychotria [Nos. 191, 
291]. There, too, was an abundance of the Lisianthus 
[No. 188], already mentioned, and of Utricularia 
Ca mp be Ilia num. 
At the bottom of the ravine into which the stream 
falls the rocks are bare and leafless but for a large num- 
ber of a pretty white flowered Myrtus {M. stenophylla, 
Oliver, N. sp. [No. 324]) which, met with no where else, , 
were growing abundantly in the spray of the falling 
water. 
But beyond this ravine, on the upper part of the 
ledge, the true botanical paradise begins. The main 
vegetation is formed of Brocchinia cordylinoides, Baker, 
(in the axils of the leaves of which here grows Utricula- 
ria Humboldtii), Abolboda sceptrum, Oliver, and 
Stegolepis guyanensis, Kl. [No. 338]. But among 
these were wonderful numbers of plants entirely 
new to me and of most striking beauty. Many 
of these were shrubby, but of so diminutive a char- 
after as to be strictly Alpine. Of these by far 
the most beautiful was a wonderful heath-like plant, 
with dark green-leaved stems, stout and sturdy but yet 
seeming almost over-weighted by their great load of 
