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Hil., also yields a fibre fit to be made into ropes. It is on that account 
named ** Malaguetto Nembra" by the natives, to distinguish it from 
Malaguetto macho (Xylopia grandiflora, St. Hil.), which is destitute of 
such a quality. 
From Remedios my road led through an immense virgid Dti the 
Montana de Corcha. It was here that I discovered another new 
species of Penligonik; with leaves like those of P. pinnatifida, so that 
we now know three species of this interesting genus. They are equally 
distributed over the Isthmus. P. pinnatifida occupies the province of 
arien; P. macrophylla, Benth., that of Panama; while P. Tinajita, 
as this third species might be oiled; is indigenous to Veraguas. The 
native name, “‘ finajita," is taken from the fruit, which sisis biag the 
water-jars (tinajas) used in the country. Mr. Bentham, in establish- 
ing the ipa serum it amongst Rondeletiee, supposing a bilocular 
capsule to be its fruit; but as Pentagonia has a bilocular Jerry, the 
inside of saad is eatable, the Gardeniee is the tribe of which it must 
be considered a member. The Pentagonias, growing in shady places 
on the banks of rivers and rivulets, are small trees (arbuscule) from 
ten to fourteen feet high, with leaves of a considerable size, generally 
from one to three feet long, by six to twelve inches in diameter, red 
bracts, calyces and corollas, and berries eatable like those of the rest 
of the tribe, the Genipas, Posoquerias, &c. A tree (no. 1651), whose 
bark is employed against fever and tooth-ache, and is known by the 
Indian appellation of “ Corpachi,” is frequently met with in the woods. 
I take it to be Croton Pseudo-China 
I reached the town of David on the 14th of February, and proceeded 
the next day to Boqueti, a farm situated on the Vulcano of Chiriqui, 
four thousand feet above the level of the sea, from whence I made 
excursions in the neighbourhood, of which the collections now trans- 
mitted are the produce. Although I had visited the sanfe place last 
year, I found now a number of plants unknown to me, and by a longer 
stay a great many more might be obtained. 
The Vulcano of Chiriqui, the most elevated part of the Isthmus of 
Panama, is about seven thousand feet high, and presents a vegetation 
similar to that of the highlands of Mexico. The oak and alder are 
predominant. The genera Salvia, Lopezia, Rubus, Fuchsia, Centradenia, 
Ageratum, Conostegia, Lupinus, Hypericum, Freziera, Galium, Equisetum, 
Euphorbia, Adiantum, Begonia, Clematis, Verbena, Inga, Solanum, Rho- 
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