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out from the mountains, and one must be stung almost daily, 
freuen many times in a day, so long as he travels through 
this regi 
es at this elevation, and also lower, are largely 
of the ‘oe plane Serjanias, Paullinias, Urvilleas and Cardio- 
spermums, one of the latter being the balloon vine of our gardens. 
This ae aa soup of pant s is most nee from every 
point of vi . Th the habit of our , 
thickly covering the shrubbery along streams aide on ex] ee 
fusi 
tic scal 
These plants increase in abundance as we reach the foot-hills 
and plains. 
Huge aroids, Philodendrons Anthuriums, and related plants, 
are abundant in all o and moist regions. Many if not 
most of them are more or ae climbing in their habit, by the aid 
of false or true roots. Many of them d some are 
tandra. One of the former is among the most fragrant of the 
Andean plants, its fi hibiting itself only for a few hours 
in the cee a uaipess just at dusk. 
e of t the eastern A 
ata 
ree of about 1,500 feet, and ie the flora undergoes an ae 
'y complete and striking change. Very heavy forests inhabit 
i widt! i 
ond it, the higher ground is covered with shrubbery, con- 
stituting the “chaparral’’ region. There are also vast prairies, 
