a _ more sheltered, and tem 
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Germen—ovatum, corpore glanduloso, versus foliolum calycis 
superius productiori, persistente cinctum. Stylus simplex, incur- 
vus, inferné attenuatus. Stigma simplex, i naenretum, 
compressum, utrinque denticulo acuto, altero reflexo. | 
_ Drupa—pendula, ovata, nitida, levigata, succosa, parvi pisi 
magnitadine, monosperma. é : 
Nux—osseo-coriacea, fulvescens, oblongo-ovata, - aienanne 
unilocularis, punctis excavatis canes FROIN: — ucleus 
ovatus, ‘aliros, cotyledone gemino. : Si eee es 
é t—in Peruvie séindixinsi semeissitonee ad ¥ rum 
sa scape tits: Pati, Sirabamba, Acomayo, Pillao, Fone 
Chaclla ; et in Tarmz provincia prope Fi Desaninanatty Paley Mu 
ayabal, Huychay, et Morocamcha. __ 
Floret—Augusto, Septembri, et Qciebei: 
hier Hnanucs, Fae ; in aieine Mace. 
The Yallhoy grows on ow peat: seal on. m fl r =" high 
ones, among small shrubs, bushes, and hetiaesoter plants, 
and is easily distinguished from all others by its beautiful 
spikes of blue flowers, variegated with white and yellow, and 
by its little fruits of a blueish purple, which when very ripe ap- 
pear black. These spikes overtop eee oh the: others consider- 
ably, waving and inclining toward the earth like a plume of 
feathers; and for this reason the Ps is distinguished in Pillao 
by the name of Masea. 
Those tracts of land, according to their greater or dens Seve 
tion, are more or less fruitful, and consequently some are colder 
than others. In the cold tracts the pl nts are less villous, less _ 
branchy, and of smaller size than those which are found in lower, 
rate situations. — | 
_ As such situations occur at the base of ¢ he Royal. M 
