158 DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



? (No. 13); perhaps a second species; agreeing in the dark-purple flowers, but 



tlie peduncle very long ; leaflets two-thirds of an inch in length, subrotund, smoothish. 

 On the exsiccated portions of the river-bed of the Riiuac at Lima. 



Dolichos gljcinoides ? (No. 4) ; flowers yellow, as in D. luteolus ; pod hairy. Abounding 

 among grasses and bushes, in the infiltrated ground around Callao and Lima. 



(Coulteria ?, No. 1); Poinciana spinosa, and " tara" of Feuillee, 39. A shrub, tea to 

 twenty feet high, having a forest or grove-like aspect. From Lima to the Andes. 



Pomaria ? (No. 1). Viscous and procumbent ; stems slender ; leaves ternato-pinnate, the 

 leaflets in about eight pairs; flowers large, yellow ; the calyx-teeth equal; the pod com- 

 pressed, setose. On the mountain-ridge between Caballeros and Yanga. 



(Csesalpinia ? No. 4) ; gen. Legum. A shrub, fifteen feet high; panicles of yellow, 

 Cassia-like flowers. A single stock, growing between Yanga and Yaso. 



Cassia (No. 26); near C. Marylandica. Six to eight feet high; pubescent all over; the 

 pod also pubescent. Below Yaso; rare. 



(Chamaecrista, No. 6) ; Cassia of authors. Near our C. chamaecrista. In the vicinity 

 of Callao. 



Mimosa? (No. 14). A branching shrub, three to five feet high; leaves conjugato-biju- 

 gis, Bauhinia-like ; flowers purple and ornamental. On the exsiccated portions of the 

 river-bed of the llimac, near its mouth. 



(Neptunia ?, No. 3). Prostrate ; the flowers yellow ; the pod not articulate. In the 

 vicinity of Callao. 



Acacia (No. 42). A shrub, twelve feet high, having the outline of a spreading tree; 

 long thorns ; flowers yellow ; the pod pubescent. In the infiltrated ground around 

 Callao and Lima. 



Lythrum maritinium, Kunth ; (compare No. 1 Hawaiian Islands); like Chilian sp. 



Flowers of medium size, purple. Vicinity of Callao, and on the exsiccated portions of 



the river-bed of the llimac at Lima. 

 Ammania (No. 6). Annual; a foot high; loaves amplexicaul, auriculate. On the 



exsiccated portions of the " river bed" of the llimac " near Callao," Brackenridge. 

 Jussisea (bis No 11 Chili); five petals. Aquatic; growing in the vicinity of Callao. 

 (No. 13). Large, six to ten feet high ;* hairy ; petals four. Abounding in wet 



ground, from Callao to beyond Yanga. 

 (No. 14) ; three to six feet high; the flowers smaller; the capsule more elongate. 



Frequent in the infiltrated ground around Callao and Lima. 

 Oenothera prostrata, Ruiz & Pav. (No. 17). Prostrate; the leaves dentate ; the capsule 



sessile. On the Amancaes mountain-heights ; making its appearance in the middle of 



June. 



(No. 18). Annual ? ; capsule tetragonal, attenuate at base, short-pedicelled. On 



the Northern continuation of the Amancaes mountain-heights ; rare. 



Spartium junceum, (bis No. 2 Europe) ; the pod hairy. Abundantly naturalized from 

 Callao to the mountain-region on the Andes ; and it was said, " all over Peru." 



Phaseolus (lunatus; No. 14 ; bis United States). " Lima" beans abundant in the mar- 

 ket. (The species probably American, and of aboriginal cultivation). 



Bauhinia (No. 9). A shrub, ten feet high ; with short thorns; flowers not seen. A single 

 stock, growing near a house three miles above Lima ; possibly indigenous. 



