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occasional. At a few places is the beautiful pink Lamourouxia 
serratifolia, one of the handsomest of Scrophulariaceae. Here 
our garden ae has escaped and become the most con- 
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depending g upon motte, the paramo occurs in two phase: 
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and Monserrate above Bogot4, have but the drier phase; this 
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The moister phase is found on the higher’and flatter paramos, 
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Here grows the most impressive plant of the paramo, the 
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