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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Vicia nigricans, Hook. ? (No. 5). Scandent, twelve to fifteen feet loner; leaves termina- 

 ting in a tendril; the leaflets about eleven, or in five to six pairs. South of Valparaiso, 

 on the road to the Lagunillas. 



Lathyrus sessiliflorus. Hook. (No. 11); near L. Magellanicus. Leaflets linear-lanceolate, 

 unijugis; stipules large. In mountain-ravines back of Valparaiso. 



Adesmia micropbylla, Hook. (No. 3). A shrub, three to five feet high. Submaritime ; 

 frequent on the hilly ground along the sea-coast. 



; perhaps a second species. The leaves narrower. On the mountain-ridge between 



Casa Blanca and Coracovi. 



? (No. 4). A shrub, three to six feet high ; devoid of spines; very viscous; pod 



of a single joint, reticulate, devoid of setfe. Environs of Valparaiso. — (Apparently 

 the same plant, described in my Rough Notes as) Viscous, the leaves abruptly-pinnate?, 

 the leaflets in eight pairs, and an Aeschynomene pod, but one-seeded. 



Sophora macrocarpa, Smith ; (No. 8) An ornamental shrub, having large yellow flowers. 

 In two or three localities in the environs of Valparaiso. 



Cassia (No. 25); near 0. frondosa. An arborescent shrub, once seen fifteen feet high 

 with the trunk six inches in diameter; large yellow flowers. Environs of Valparaiso, 

 growing at the outlet of valleys near the level of the sea. 



Gen. Cassia-like (No. 1). Having stipules; leaves pinnate; the leaflets large, ovate, in 

 four pairs; pod as in Cassia, but entirely flat. "North of Valparaiso," Brackenridge. 



(Vachellia) cavenia, (No. 2). An Acacia-like shrub, having the habit of V. farnesiana ; 

 the pod inflated, and rigid. Frequent in the Interior; becoming the prevailing shrub 

 towards Santiago and on the basal portion of the Andes. 



Aca3na (No. 4); sericeous. Frequent on the heights or mountain-slope back of Val- 

 paraiso. 



Margyrocarpus (setosus ; compare No. 1 North Patagonia). Frequent on the barren 

 ridges of the mountain-slope back of Valparaiso. 



Gen. Rosac? (No. 1). A shrub, having the habit of Polygonum; leaves fasciculate, suc- 

 culent, linear, not spinescent. On the road to Santiago. 



Kageneckia oblonga, Ruiz & Pav. (No. 1). An arborescent shrub, six to twenty feet 

 high. Frequent in the environs of Valparaiso ; and especially abounding in the ravines 

 of the basal portion of the Andes. (This, and the following plant, have the aspect of 

 the Pomacece, except that in place of apples they bear only cores). 



Quillaia smegmadermos, (No. 1). Usually an arborescent shrub ; but on a depressed 

 plain at the Western base of the Cuesta de Prao mountain-ridge, becoming a tree sixty 

 feet high with the trunk three feet in diameter. Frequent all over the country ; and 

 especially abounding in the ravines of the basal portion of the Andes, as high as the 

 commencement of the Middle mountain-region. 



Lythrum (No. 5 ; compare Peru, and No. 1 Hawaiian Islands). Near L. lineare. In 

 wet places, and on the exsiccated portions of river-beds ; frequent. 



Erodium (compare Lapwai in Interior Oregon, San Francisco in California), and E. mille- 

 folium. Two to three inches high. Frequent towards the Middle mountain-region of 

 the Andes. 



Juglans regia, (bis Australia, Europe, and the United States). Walnuts for sale in the 

 market. 



