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so-called " cinnamon of Santa Fé." Another tree growing in the same region 

 produces copal, and the upper Rio Mira basin is the home of the false pepper 

 {schinus molle) which has become so common round the Mediterranean seaboard. 



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The Quitonians also possess the guaynsa, a kind of " tea," which grows sponta- 

 neously in dense thickets on the slopes of Pichincha and other mountains. 



In the Ecuadorean Andes the upper limit of arborescent vegetation attains an 

 altitude of 11,800 feet above sea-level. But many vast spaces comprised within 



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