Chap. XV. VEniOTATfOK OF TUE PAJONALES. 241 



turit-trocs drooping over it. Ev(^rywliGrc tliorc is an abnijit 

 boundary to the foreground in the profound forest-covered 

 ravines, with splendid views of mountain ranges in the 

 distance. 



The vegetation of the thickets in these pajonales consists of 

 palms, tree-ferns, Melastomacece {Lasiandra fontanesiana) witli 

 bright showy flowers, exceedingly pretty Eiicacece (Gfaulthe- 

 rice), Vacemice, the linaturit or incense-tree in great quanti- 

 ties, and Chlnchonce, chiefly consisting of C. Caravaijcnsis 

 (Wedd.), witli a few plants of Calisaya Josephiana, but the 

 latter are much more rare here than in the neighbom-hood of 

 Paccay-samana. The C. Caravayensis, a worthless species, 

 has panicles of beautiful deep roseate flowers, large coarse 

 hauy capsules, and lanceolate leaves, above smooth with 

 purple veins, and hairy on the under side. It can probably 

 bear greater cold than any other chincliona.' 



The afternoon was passed in searching for plants of the 

 shrubby Calisaya, but witli little success. During our exami- 

 nation of the thickets we found a single specimen, evidently 

 belonging to the Calisaya species, but in the form of a tree, 

 and not of a skrub. Its height was eighteen feet six inches ; 

 its girth, two feet from the ground, eight and a half inches ; 

 and the position in which it was growing was 5680 feet above 

 the level of the sea. I was uncertain whether it belonged 

 to the tree variety {Calisaya vera, Wedd.), or to the shrub 

 {Calisaga Josephiana); for Dr. Weddell only gives the height 

 of the latter at eight or ten feet. 



Near the banks of one of the black pools, overhung by 

 spreading branches, we found a shed, a roof of coarse gi-ass 

 raised on four sticks four and a half feet high, and here we 

 encamped for the night. It- had been made by some party of 



1 Dr. Weddell, the discoverer of this I fruit of the C. Caravayensis, which are 

 species, had never seen it in flower, now in the herbarimu at Kow. 

 1 brought home leaves, iiowers, and 1 



