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244 ARRUDA's BRAZILIAN PLANTS. and holiday. I accompanied him on one of these occasions, and we were paddled over in a canoe. We entered the cottage of a man of colour, the chief person of the place ; a hammock was hanging in the room, and into this my companion threw himself, and three or four children of the house quickly came to him, one or two of whom he took into the hammock to play with. The females made their appearance to greet him upon his arrival ; he was a favourite seemingly with all parties, great and small. Indeed I never met with any one who possessed more pleasing manners. He is generally beloved wherever he is known, but by the lower orders of people more especially, he is quite adored. I was long acquainted with him, both before and after the time of which I speak, and I never heard him make use of a harsh word to any one ; his manner and his tones of voice always indicated that goodness in him greatly predominated. A free mulatto man, of the name of Bertolomeu, once said to me in speaking of this priest, * If he sees a child fall, he runs and picks it up and cleans its face, and this he does not do because any one is in sight to see him act in this manner, but because his heart so inclines him.' It is much to be lamented that his exertions have not been directed to obtaining a situation in which his excellent qualities might have a wider field for display : but he is satisfied with what has been given to him." In the following list I have arranged alphabetically under their Latin names the species enumerated on Arruda's authority in Koster's Appendix, omitting the well-known plants which are in- cluded therein. I have quoted the vernacular names and such portions of the descriptions as are necessary for my purpose. In the Appendix, ** Arrud. Cent. Plant. Pern." follows each name. The mark ! after a work cited specifies that Arruda's name is cited therein. AcANTACARYx PiNGuis. Pigui. Kostcr, p. 491. Mr. Jackson refers Acantacaryx to Caryocai and A. Plnguis is doubtless identical with C. brasiliensis Willd. : the properties ascribed to the two trees are similar, and Miers gives **Pequia" as the name of the latter in Bahia: Arruda's Piqui" **is the delight of the inhabitants of Seara [Ceara] andPiauhi." Endlicher (Gen. p. 1076) prints the name Acanthocaryx, which Jackson (who does not note its identity with Acantacaryx) further modifies into Acanthocarya. Thus is synonymy increased. Agave vivIpara Lin. Syst. Veg. Caroata-agu or Piteira. Koster, 481. According to Miers and Index Kewensis, this is not A. vivipara L., but= Furcrcea agavephylla Brot. — a plant which in the Index is subsequently (under Furcraa) identified with F. cubensis Vent. Brotero's description occurs in Roem. & Schult. Syst. vii. (not vi. as in Ind. Kew.) 731, where it is given as from '* Linn, Transact. March, 1823." Neither Mr. Jackson nor I have been able to trace this reference. ■ Amyris Pernambucensis. Almecega. Koster, 600. This may certainly be referred to Protium: the name "Alme- cega" is common to several species, and in this case probably = P. heptaphyllum fd. brasiliense Engl.