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I gatliered palms in Equatorial South America, during the years 

 1849-1860, on the following areas : 



Lat. Long. (Greenw.). Alt. 



1. Para l°-2 ""s. 48 -49 W. Plain. 



2. Amazon, between the Ta- ^ ^^^^^ g^ ^^ _rjgi y^r pi^hi. 



pajoz and Trombetas . . j ** ^ 



3. Confluence of Eio Negro 



and Upper Amazon (ort 3 -S^S. 59 -GO W. Tlain. 



Solimoens) 



4, Upper llio Negro, river 



Plain 



Uaupds, river Casi- } 01 S.-6i N. G6 -C8 W. to 2000 ft. 



quiari, Upper Orinoco 



5, Tarapoto, in the Andes i 



of Maynas (l e. East t 5|-7 S. 76 -77 W. to 5000 ft.' 



Peru) \ 



6. Forest of Canelos (Eastern j 



side of Quitenian 0x10^-2 S. 76 -78^W. to 5000 ft. 



Equatorial Andes) . , . . ) 



7* Plain of Guayaquil, and) 



Western side of Quite- I 1 -3 S. 79|-81 W. to 6000 ft 



nian Andes ) 



The only palm actually gathered on the last area is a species of 

 FhytelephaSy which will be described at the end of this memoir- 



The true Andine palms, those namely of the forest-clad slopes 

 of the Andes, beginning at 6000 feet with Ceroxi/7on an Jicola, ana 

 extending upwards to at least 11,000 feet (where there are still 

 noble Laurels and other trees that give the hill-forests a semi- 

 Amazonian character), are entirely unrepresented in my collection. 

 They were left to be collected when I should have nefarly ex- 

 hausted the ferns and mosses ; but ere that time came I was dis- 

 abled from collecting at all. There is therefore still an interesting 

 if not very copious harvest of Andine palms to be reaped by some 

 future traveller, especially in the eastern cordillera of the Equa- 

 torial Andes, 



Thirty years before my own visit to the Amazon, Dr. von 

 Martius, the most eminent botanist who ever visited South Ame- 

 rica, had travelled on that river and on one of the largest of its 

 northern tributaries, the Japura, during the space of eleven months 



and fragile to be sent to a distance, and for want of them some of the following 

 descriptions (especially of the Cocoina?) will be found lacking in completeness 



Professor 



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