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DISTRIBUTION OP PLANTS. 



(No. 12). Woolly ; the hairs and thorns white ; stem three to six feet high, 



simple, or sometimes branching, the branches few; inflorescence secund. From Yanga 

 to the Andes. 



? (No. 13); compare Opuntia. One to two feet high, upright, and sometimes 



branching at the summit ; showy scarlet flowers. Between Yanga and Yaso. 

 Opuntia? (No. 10). Six to eight inches high; clustered; the stem-joints ovoid, easily 



detached ; flowers not seen. Between Yanga and Yaso. 

 (No. 11). Similar in habit and size; flowers bright-yellow, lasting several days, 



the tube short. At the inland base of the Amancaes mountain-ridge ; rare. Figured 



by Mr. Agate. 



? (No. 12). Upright, branching, five to ten feet high ; stem eight or ten inches dia- 

 meter, usually tetragonal, but sometimes with six angles; the flowers small, purple, dis- 

 posed upon the projecting angles. Met with from the vicinity of Caballeros to the Andes. 



Hydrocotyle (No. 21 ; compare No. 19 Chili). Like H. ranunculoides. On the banks of 

 an irrigating canal, passing through the streets of Lima. 



multiflora, Ruiz & Pav. (No. 22). Almost subaquatic ; the leaves large, mis- 

 taken in the distance for those of a Nymphsea. In the drowned land at the mouth 

 of the Riniac. 



Spermacoce ? (No. 4). Leaves lanceolate-ovate, attenuate at base; flowers congested. In 

 the vicinity of Callao. 



(Rubia ?; compare No. 3 Chili. Recorded as) Galium ?. Leaves verticillate in fours ; calyx 

 very large ; the fruit orange-colored, and hairy. In the environs of Callao. 



( ? No. 4. Recorded as) Galium. Smaller; leaves verticillate in fours, linear. 



On the Amancaes mountain-heights. 



Valeriana (No. 7). A foot high ; leaves all pinnatisect, the lobes dentate. On the Aman- 

 caes mountain-heights; making its appearance in the middle of June. 



Gen. Sonchus-like (No. 2); compare Patagonia. Scorzonera-like ; leaves lanceolate, entire; 

 smooth ; calyx-scales about ten, in a single series ; flowers white ; the pappus pedicelled. 

 Growing along the banks of the irrigating canals around Callao. 



Dumerilia (No. 1). From below Yaso to the mountain-region on the Andes. 



Piqueria artemisioides ? (No. 1). Having the habit of Solidago; leaves opposite, dentate; 

 calyx-scales in a single series; flowers consisting of five or six florets. On the Aman- 

 caes mountain-heights, and elsewhere on the Desert upland. 



(No. 2) ; perhaps a second species ; the leaves entire, obtuse. Between Yanga 



and Yaso. 



Phalacrsea latifolia? (No. 1) ; "manga paki" of Feuillee, 36. Annual?; Ageratum- 

 like ; a foot high ; the flowers blue. In the environs of Callao and Lima. 



Nothites ? (No. 2). A shrub, one to two feet high ; the flowers corymbose, whitish. In 

 the environs of Lima ; growing on the Desert-upland. 



Mikania (No. 8). Smooth ; the flowers slender, consisting of three to five florets. Fre- 

 quent in infiltrated ground, from Callao to the Andes. 



Cydonia vulgaris, (bis Yemen, Brazil, Chili, United States, and No. 1 Europe). Quinces 

 for sale in the market. 



Malus sylvestris, (bis Yemen, Brazil, United States, and No. 1 Europe). Apples of 

 several varieties abundant in the market, and superior in quality to those of Chili. 



