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198 outhern coat of which we directed our route on the following day. We aw ome pelicans; but they did not come within gun-hot of us.

Piron, the painter to the expedition, who was of our party, took everal drawings of the landcape. The round hills, covered with tall trees, which bounded the horizon added greatly to the beauty of the propect.

We were obliged to return back by the road we had come, in order to arrive at the oppoite ide of the lake. Piron returned on board.

I dicovered an evergreen tree, which has its nut ituated, like that of the acajou, upon a flehy receptacle much larger than itelf. I therefore named this new genus exocarpos.

It has hermaphrodite flowers upon the ame peduncle with others which are ditinctly male and female.

The male flowers have a calix divided into five roundih leaves; they have no corolla; the tamina, which are five in number, are mall and attached to the calix between its diviions; the germen abortive.

The female flowers have a calix imilar to that of the male; but neither corolla nor tamina: the ovarium is globular, with a hort tyle; the tigma circular and flat. In