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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. 



By W. J. H. 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



I. RANUNCULACEiE. Juss. 



\. Clematis sericea ; scandens, foliis ternatis aut pinnatis, 

 foliolis (3-5) subobovatis acuminatis grosse serratis sub- 

 trilobis supra pubescentibus subtus sericeis, floribus 

 umbellatis involucratis in ». pedunculo simplici subrace- 

 mosim dispositis. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 5. p. 37. 

 De Cand. Prodr. v. \. p. 5. — ^. foliolis latioribus cordatis. 

 Humb. et Kunth. 



Hab. /3. Between Obrajillo and Culluay, Valley of Canta. 



If I am correct in referring this plant to the CI. sericea 

 Humb. and Kunth, it must belong to the var. /3., 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 

 flowers are solitary, but there is a 2-leaved involucre, which, 

 probably, occasionally produces more than one flower. The 

 flower itself is large, an inch and a half and more in diameter, 



* In the subjoined List, I have confined myself to the plants preserved in 

 the 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,~-Ed, 



