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Upon the whole, it may be safely concluded that this important 
vegetable is really indigenous to Chili; but with respect to Peru, some 
further evidence appears necessary to remove all doubt on the subject. 
The question can only be decided by ascertaining the exact situations in 
Which the plants present themselves at Lima and Chancay, especially 
with respect to land that is or has been cultivated. It would be interest- 
ing, too, to know the colour of the flowers. > 
NOTICE 
OF 
SOME OF THE PLANTS* COLLECTED DURING 
THE ABOVE EXCURSION. 
Bx W. J. H. 
DICOTYLEDONES. 
I. RANUNCULACE. Juss. 
l. Clematis sericea; scandens, foliis ternatis aut pinnatis, 
foliolis (3-5) subobovatis acuminatis grosse serratis sub- 
trilobis supra pubescentibus subtus sericeis, floribus 
umbellatis involucratis in æ. pedunculo simplici subrace- 
mosim dispositis. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 5. p. 37. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 5.—8. foliolis latioribus cordatis. 
Humb. et Kunth. | “pre 
Has. g. Between Obrajillo and Culluay, Valley of Canta. 
If I am correct in referring this plant to the CZ. sericea 
Humb. and Kunth, it must belong to the var. 8., foliolis lati- 
oribus cordatis of those authors. But the specimens de- 
Scribed in the Nova Genera, seem to have been imperfect, and 
the plant itself is liable to much variation. In ours, the 
Owers are solitary, but there is a 2-leaved involucre, which, 
Probably, occasionally produces more than one flower. ` The 
itself is large, an inch and a half and more in diameter, 
NUNC 
* In the subjoined List, I have confined myself to the plants preserved in 
oe Herbarium, Many seeds were collected which have been distributed to 
different gardens ; and several of the plants raised from them proved exceedingly 
Interesting, and have been published by Dr. Graham in the Edin, Phil. Journ., 
and by myself in the Botanical Magazine. —Ed4. - 
