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VIII. TEREBINTHACEiE. Juss. 

 1. Schinus Molle. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 74. 

 Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



The flowering specimen of this plant, with its narrow 

 leaflets, has a very different appearance from what is 

 cultivated in our gardens, and which I have never known to 

 flower. If the leaves of this species, and others of this 

 family, called Molle by the natives, be broken into small 

 pieces and thrown upon water, they exhibit, and for a con- 

 siderable length of time, the most extraordinary movements ; 

 owing to the essential oil escaping from the wounds ; which, 

 by the resistance it meets with in the water, forces the frag- 

 ments of leaf in the opposite direction. 



IX. LEGUMINOS^. Juss. 



1. Crotalaria incana. Linn. — Cav. Ic. v. 4. t. 322. De Cand. 

 Prodr. V. 2. p. 132. 



Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



2. Indigofera Truxillensis ; fruticosa, ramosissima, ramulis 

 ferrugineo-strigosis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis 5-6-jugis ob- 

 longis obtusis mucronatis, basi cuneatis, (pra3sertim 

 subtus) strigosis, racemis multifloris subsessilibus folio 

 brevioribus, leguminibus reflexis, teretiusculis, subfalcatis, 

 4-6-spermis. Humb. et Kunth^ Nov. Gen. Am. v. 6. p. 

 457. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 226. 



Hab. Lurin. 



3. Dalea cylindrica; procumbens, glabriuscula, foliolis 6- 

 jugis obovatis submucronatis subtus punctatis, pedunculis 

 oppositifoliis folio triple longioribus, spicis cylindraceis 

 densis, bracteis ovatis concavis mucronatis, calyce nigro- 

 punctato glabro bractea longiore, laciniis lato-subulatis 

 ciliatis. 



Hab. Valley of Canta. 



Caidis procumbens, ramosus, gracilis, inferne fruticosus, 

 pallide fuscus, glaber, superne herbaceus subsericeus. Folia 

 triuncialia, juniora subsericea, demum glabra, 6-7-juga, 

 foliolis obovatis obscure mucronatis, subtus glanduloso- 



