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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Azara integrifolia ? (No. 1); the flowers in axillary racemes. Near the windmills, on the 



mountain-slope back of Valparaiso. 

 (No. 2). Habit of Zizyphus ; leaves crenulate, reticulate on the under surface. 



Environs of Valparaiso. 

 (No. 3) ; leaves attenuate. 



(No. 4). Habit of Prinos; the flowers four-parted. Found by Mr. Brackenridge. 



Monnina linearifolia, Ruiz & Pav. (No. 1). On the heights or mountain-slope back of 

 Valparaiso. 



Frankenia? (No. 4). Maritime ; frequent on the sands of the sea-shore. 



? (No. 5); apparently a second species. More pubescent. On barren hills in 



the environs of Santiago. 

 Stellaria ? (No. 13). The leaves large, cordate, petioled. Growing in wet places in the 



ravines of the environs of Valparaiso. 

 Spergularia (compare No. 3 California and No. 5 North Patagonia). "Valparaiso," 



Brackenridge. 



(Sphaeralcea ? No. 1); Nuttalia, or compare Malva. Small; the segments of the outer 

 calyx linear ; flowers purple, and small. Environs of Valparaiso. 



Aristotelia macqui, (No. 1). A shrub, ten to fifteen feet high, with the branches few and 

 straight. Frequent in the environs of Valparaiso, and elsewhere. 



Cissus (No. 35). Stem pubescent ; leaves quinquefoliolate. At the outlet of valleys and 

 in ravines in the environs of Valparaiso. 



Linum aquilinum, Molin. (No. 10); compare L. Cummingii. The flowers yellow. On 

 the barren upland, frequent from Valparaiso to the Cuesta de Prao mountain-ridge, be- 

 yond Coracovi. 



Tropseolum brachyceras, Hook.? (No. 1). "Ravines near Valparaiso," Brackenridge. 

 Oxalis (No. 22). The root bulbous ; the stem and its single terminal flower appearing 



before the leaves. Imparting a golden yellow hue to tracts of the barren table-land 



back of Valparaiso. 



■ carnosa? (No. 23). Succulent; and having an underground woody stem. Mari- 

 time ; growing in clefts of rocks along the sea-coast. 



Coriaria (No. 2). Leaves tenderly herbaceous, cordate, entire ; flowers icosandrous, and 

 five or six styles. On the "sands of the sea-shore," Brackenridge. 



(Villaresia? No. 1; gen.) near Ilex. A shrub, with prickly leaves. A single stock, 

 growing about ten miles South of Valparaiso. 



( ? No. 2 ; perhaps not distinct from the preceding) ; compare Ruizia of some 



writers. A tree thirty feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter ; leaves coriaceous, 

 broad-ovate, entire. In ravines of the elevated mountain-ridge, that commences twelve 

 miles South of Valparaiso. 



Maytenus Chilensis, (No. 1). A very graceful tree, twenty to twenty -five feet high, with 

 slender pendent branchlets, somewhat like those of the weeping willow, but for the dis- 

 tichous spreading leaves; capsule two-valved, containing two seeds. G-rowing on the 

 table-land, from Valparaiso to Coracovi, and beyond. 



Vitis vinifera, (bis Europe, mountains of Yemen, Australia, Austral Africa, Rio Janeiro, 

 and the United States); the grape. Cultivated, chiefly for the table; but producing 

 raisins of good quality, and a kind of wine by many approved. 



