208 A VISIT TO THE NORTHERNMOST FOREST OF CHILE. 
it to be the very interesting Monttea chilensis Clos., considered by 
some botanists as a Solanacea, by others as an anomalous Big- 
noniacea, which I never had seen before, except in dry specimens. 
In the coarse sand at the bottom of the valley grew species of 
Tylloma and Gnaphalium. 
From here we began to ascend to Frai Jorge, whose height I 
estimate to be from 1000 to 1200 m., where we arrived at 11 o’clock. 
this part of the road we found many Adesmia, the same as the 
day before, Hupatorium Salvia Colla, Fuchsia rosea, two species of 
Proustia, and many frutescent Synantheree, amongst them Haplo- 
pappus foliosus DC., Gochnatia pyrifolia Don, Tylloma glabratum 
Pilostyles Berterii Guill., and we succeeded and found two or three 
specimens. This is a true parasite, living in the bark of Adesmia, 
and showing nothing more than its little purple flowers, which 
come out of fissures in the bark. I thus found at last a plant 
for which I had looked since my arrival in Chile in nearly every 
arborescent Adesmia I met in the many voyages and botanical 
excursions I had made. At eleven o’clock we reached the moun- 
