to Willis'key to the palms, it must constitute a new section in the family. It has big black fruit, on a single spadix, containing three seeds bibbed as in Lodociera. April 9th. Cloudy day: not much sun: fog and misty rain on plains to 9 AM: no further rain. Took a short hunting canoe and 4 boys and examined down to the main river the old cut-off bend on which Bernhard Camp is situated. River a brisk hours paddling from B. Camp: For first 1/3 of the distance the banks, at the present stage of the water, are from nil to 2 feet above the water and carry a subclimax flood plain forest in which a large-leaved Dillenia is conspicuous and occasional very large banyans occur. Mucuna and Gretum are abundant as screening lianes, the former bear ing few flowers, though presenting a fine showing of flaming blossoms in December; swamp forests of tall D'Albertis Paplay constitute an earlier stage of forest devel opment and along the lowest banks capable of supporting woody vegetation is a dense low scrub community of a large-leaved ficus , now standing 3 m. out of the wa water and supporting an abundance of Cissus, a purple Ipomoea, prickly Acacia with fluff bells of white flowers and some other small climbers which spread over thin leafy tops. A small Vauchia growing in open formation, of stunted ap- pearance and for all the world like a Sonneratis of the coast, sometimes fringes the"poplar" stands (on new mud banks?). Farther down towards a tree-like Timonius rumphii in appearance, grows in pure stands 20 meters high on apparently inundated ground. Here and there large masses of floating green Leersia fill quiet bays too deep for trees, and treeless marshes filled with this grass, and containing a good deal of open water lie beyond the banks. A blue flowering crisp-leaved Aristema in some places grows abundantly among the floating grass. Down near the rivers are extensive grassy marshes, after passing which one reaches the silt levees of the river itself; covered with magnificent pure