2 8o NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP. 



same genus, extends up the slopes of the mountains to 8000 feet, 

 and has its lower limit above that of the Cinchona ; but as I have 

 never seen its flowers, and as the Cecropias are apparently confined 

 to the hot and warm regions, I suppose it may be generically 

 distinct. 



Euphorbiacece, 3. The species gathered comprise an Acalypha, 

 a Phyllanthus, and a small tree of unknown genus. . . . 



Callitrichacece. A Callitriche, in pools by the Rio San Antonio. 



Monimiacea. Three species of Citrosma are frequent. 



Menispermacece. A woody twiner of this order was noted, 

 probably an Abuta, but without flower or fruit. 



Ciicurbitacea, 8. Plants of this family are abundant, and, 

 besides the eight species gathered, some others were seen in a 

 barren state. I gathered two Anguriae, with trifoliolate leaves, 

 and the characteristic scarlet flowers of the genus. One plant, 

 apparently of this order, puzzled me much, for the woody stems, 

 partly twining and partly climbing by means of radicles, and no 

 thicker than packthread, bore a bunch of slender flowers (calyx 

 scarlet, corolla yellow) near the base ; but though I pulled down 

 some stems of enormous length, I could see no traces of leaves 

 on them. At length I succeeded in getting down an entire 

 stem, 40 feet long (by no means one of the longest), which had 

 a couple of trifoliate leaves near the apex. . . . 



Begoniacece, 4. Two climbing and two terrestrial species. 

 Of the latter, one is a large coarse plant 10 feet high, with leaves 

 resembling those of Heracleum giganteum. I have gathered the 

 same, or a very similar species, on .the eastern side of the 

 Cordillera. One of the climbing species is very ornamental, from 

 its long pinnate shoots bearing a profusion of roseate flowers and 

 generally purplish leaves. This genus, entirely absent from the 

 Amazonian plain, though it has one representative in that of 

 Guayaquil, abounds on the woody slope of the Andes, especially 

 in the warm and temperate regions. 



Papavacece. Two species of Carica were seen, both slender 

 simple arbuscles of 5 to 6 feet, the one by the Chasuan, the 

 other by the San Antonio. The leaves of the former are boiled 

 and eaten by the inhabitants under the name of " col del monte " 

 (wood cabbage). . . . 



Flaconrtiacece, i. A small tree, probably a species of Bonara. 



Samydea. A Casearia, which seems to be C. Sylvestris, grows 

 in some abundance, but the fruits were open and empty. This 

 is the highest point at which I have seen a species of Casearia, 

 a genus abundant in the plains, especially in woods of secondary 

 growth. 



Passiflorece, 2. Both species of Passiflora ; the one a woody 

 twiner (frequently found on the Red Bark tree), with entire leaves, 

 smallish green flowers, and globose berries the size of a cherry ; 



