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from among the Urticese, and the species of Yitis from 

 among the Ampelidese, belong to the class of twining 

 climbers, and between the tropics we find climbing Grasses 

 or Graminese. We have seen in the plains of Bogota, in 

 the pass of Quindiu, in the Andes, and in theQuina-producing 

 forests of Loxa, a Bambusacea allied to Nastus, our Chusquea 

 scandens, twine round massive and lofty trunks of trees adorned 

 at the same time with flowering Orchidea3. The Bambusa 

 scandens (Tjankorreh), which Blume found in Java, belongs 

 probably either to the genus Nastus or to that of Chusquea, 

 the Carrizo of the Spanish settlers. Twining plants appear 

 to me to be entirely absent in the Pine-woods of Mexico, 

 but in New Zealand, besides the Eipogonum parviflorum of 

 Robert Brown, (a climber belonging to the Smilaceee which 

 renders the forests almost impenetrable), the sweet-smelling 

 Freycinetia Banksii, which belongs to the Pandanese, twines 

 round a gigantic Podocarpus 220 English feet high, the P. 

 dacryoides (Rich), called in the native language Kakikatea. 

 (Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand, 1843, Yol. i. p. 426.) 

 With climbing Gramineae and Pandaneae are contrasted 

 by their beautiful and many-coloured blossoms the Passifloras 

 (among which, however, we even found an arborescent self- 

 supporting species, Passiflora glauca, growing in the Andes 

 of Popayan, at an elevation of 9840 French (10487 English) 

 feet) ; the Bignoniacese, Mutisias, Alstromerias, Urvilleae, 

 and Aristolochias. Among the latter our Aristolochia cordata 

 has a crimson-coloured flower of 17 English inches diameter ! 

 " flores gigantei, pueris mitoe instar inservientes."" Many 

 of these twining plants have a peculiar physiognomy and 



