ſouthern coaſt of which we directed our route on the following day. We ſaw ſome pelicans; but they did not come within gun-ſhot of us.
Piron, the painter to the expedition, who was of our party, took ſeveral drawings of the landſcape. The round hills, covered with tall trees, which bounded the horizon added greatly to the beauty of the proſpect.
We were obliged to return back by the road we had come, in order to arrive at the oppoſite ſide of the lake. Piron returned on board.
I diſcovered an evergreen tree, which has its nut ſituated, like that of the acajou, upon a fleſhy receptacle much larger than itſelf. I therefore named this new genus exocarpos.
It has hermaphrodite flowers upon the ſame peduncle with others which are diſtinctly male and female.
The male flowers have a calix divided into five roundiſh leaves; they have no corolla; the ſtamina, which are five in number, are ſmall and attached to the calix between its diviſions; the germen abortive.
The female flowers have a calix ſimilar to that of the male; but neither corolla nor ſtamina: the ovarium is globular, with a ſhort ſtyle; the ſtigma circular and flat.
