paramo of El Chuscal, and no enh eastward at Nemacon. On 
o occasions, October 13-15 and October 28-29, I was at 
Sibate, collecting southward and westward to E] Pefion; also on 
es, September 15 and October 28, at the Falls of Tequen- 
dama. f these localities I shall give no individual accounts. 
At Tequendama and a few miles south and west of Sibate I was 
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now drained through the gorge of Tequendama. Other like 
areas occur northward in the Cordillera, some, as that of Fuquene, 
occupied by considerable lakes. I suppose the flora of the others 
in it. g 
these are Alnus, Salix, Carex, Juncus, Marsilia, Apiaceae, Oeno- 
thera, Gratiola, and most common Nierembergia and the incon- 
spicuous greenish-flowered Dichondra. Perhaps Alonsoa merid- 
tonalis belongs here, as I have never seen it in seemingly native 
habitats nor much above this lev 
mt the sides of the sabana extending as peninsulas into 
it, is hills which are covered with a grayish coat of shrubby 
about 3,100 meters altitu he bushes are intr , but 
seldom thorny. recall species of Cestrum, Centropogon or allies, 
various Vacciniaceae and Melastomaceae. Hypericum is abund- 
ant hrubby. Our first ‘‘Frailejon,” Espeletia, 
this with brittle narrow yellowish leaves, ishere. Also Geranium, 
Valeriana, Lycopodium, Cerastium, Iridaceae, Eriocaulon, Lu- 
pinus, etc oward its upper limit grows Aragoa cupressina, a 
coniferous-looking, white-blossomed Scro riaceous shru 
in this zone is a low red-bracted Castilleja, while an- 
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other of this genus with yellow bracts, and likewise undescribed, is 
* This zonal boundary is lowered by reason of the sabana. Beyond Sibate, 
1 he clouds rise f " ran 1 Ititud 
