1/4 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP. 



1858. AMBATO 



Sept. 18-22. Packing Quito collections. 



23. Ambato to Riobamba. 



28. Riobamba to Cajabamba. 



29. Cajabamba to Pangor. 



,, 30. To a hill-top in forest of Pallatanga. 



Oct. i . To village of Pallatanga. 



12. Collecting around Pallatanga. 



13. From Pallatanga to forest below Pangor. 



14. To the Hacienda de las Monjas. 



1 5. Across the Paramo de Naba to Riobamba. 



,, 16-20. At Riobamba. 



21. Return to Ambato by the Paramo de Sanancajas. 



22. Ambato. 



23. To Patate and back to Ambato. 



24. Back to Riobamba by way of the Paramo de 

 Sabanan. 



2t. RIOBAMBA 



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,, 31. Collecting near Riobamba, at Guano, etc. 

 Nov. 1-8. Collecting near Riobamba. 



9-14. At the farm of Titaicun on the slope of a ridge (not 



rising to snow-line) above the village of Cham bo. 

 ,, 15-30. At Riobamba. 

 Dec. 1-2. Excursion to the Paramo del Puyal, a prolongation 



of the southern shoulder of Chimborazo. 

 3-8. Collecting near Riobamba. 







AT THE FARM OF TAMAUTE, AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE 

 RIVERS GUANO AND CHAMBO 



9-31. Excursions around Tamaute : On the banks of the 

 Chambo on the salt-plain of Elen to Guan- 

 ando to the head of the river Guano (at the 

 foot of Chimborazo), etc. 



[The following letter to Mr. Bentham, written 

 two months after his arrival at Banos, gives an 

 interesting summary of the whole journey to that 

 place, with so many vivid personal touches that, 

 despite of some repetition, I will here give the 

 latter part of it. It also carries on the narrative to 

 a later period, and gives some account of the little- 



