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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(No. 25). Three to four feet high; and having hroad, cordate leaves. On the 



exsiccated portions of the river-bed of the Kimac, below Lima. 

 ; perhaps a fourth species. 



Abutilon (No. 9). Tomentose; leaves cordate, and acuminate; carpels about eight, acu- 

 minate. At Yaso, and elsewhere in Lower Peru. 



? (No. 10). Closely tomentose ; leaves petioled, broad-ovate; flowers axillary, glo- 

 merate ; carpels eleven, acuminate. At Yaso, and elsewhere in Lower Peru. 



Byttneria (No. 1). A shrub, three to six feet high, with the stem prickly. From Lima 

 to the Andes. 



Waltheria (compare Brazil, and No. 1 Hawaiian and Feejee Islands, and Zanzibar). A 

 shrub, one to four feet high, weak, spreading, many-stemmed; closely tomentose. 

 Frequent in the drier portion of the infiltrated ground around Callao and Lima. 



? (No. 8); or perhaps Sida; compare Obrajillo sp. Leaves petioled, broad-ovate, 



closely tomentose ; flowers axillary, crowded. In the vicinity of Yaso. 



Triumfetta (No. 4). Three to five feet high; leaves tomentose, broad. Between Yanga 

 and Yaso; somewhat rare. 



(Juliania huaucui. Gray; No. 1); gen. incert. A shrub, three to five feet high, having 

 thick stems, and but few branches ; no leaves ; dioecious ; the male flowers panicled, 

 and very small ; the fruit of three maple-like samaras. In the vicinity of Yaso ; grow- 

 ing on the Desert upland. 



Cardiospermum (No. 2); compare Obrajillo sp. Procumbent, many-stemmed; flowers white, 

 and rather large. On the Northern prolongation of the Amancaes mountain-ridge. 



Dodonaia (compare No. 1 Metia to the East Indies, Oman, Yemen, Zanzibar, and Brazil). 

 A shrub, five feet high. A single stock met with ; growing beyond Yaso, on the basal 

 portion of the Andes. 



Cissus compressicaulis, (No. 36); pubescent. In the infiltrated ground around Lima, but 

 chiefly abounding in the vicinity of Callao. 



Geranium (No. 18). Stemless, with a thick, woody root, and having much of the habit of 

 some alpine species; pilose ; leaves reniform, incised; flowers not seen. On the sum- 

 mit of the Island of San Lorenzo, and of the Amancaes mountain-ridge; making its 

 appearance in the middle of June. 



(rapa ; bis Polynesian Groups, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and 



No. 2 Europe). Turnips, a variety with the root fusiform, abundant in the market. 

 Raphanus sativus, (bis Bekkan, Zanzibar, Yemen, Egypt, Europe, and the United States). 



Radishes abundant in the market. 

 Bixa Oreliana. (bis Hawaiian Islands, East Indies, Hindostan, Zanzibar, and No. 1 Brazil) 



Arnotto brought to market in large quantities; and apparently much used. 

 (Chorisia ? No. 2 ) ; gen. Bombac. A tree, thirty feet high ; the trunk slightly swelling 



in the middle, and covered with a few short thorns ; the flowers white. Planted in a 



garden ; brought probably either from the North, or from beyond the Andes. 

 Citrus aurantium, (bis Polynesian Groups, East Indies, Zanzibar, Egypt, and Brazil). 



Oranges in great abundance in the market. 

 (acida; bis Taheiti, Samoa, Feejee Islands, and Mocha) ; the lemon. The fruit 



for sale in the market. The rough-skinned variety, called in our greenhouses the 



"citron," also observed in market. 



