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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Hyptis spicata ? (compare Mindanao, and No. 2 Brazil). Four to six feet high ; pube- 

 scent ; the leaves crenately dentate. On the exsiccated portions of the river-bed of the 

 Riniac at Lima, and in infiltrated ground elsewhere. 



Salvia (No. 9). From below Yaso to the mountain-region on the Andes. 



Zapania canescens, Kunth; (No. 3). Abounding in the infiltrated ground around Callao. 



Lippia? (No. 1). A weak-stemmed shrub, one to two feet high, having the habit of 

 Lantana; leaves papillif., hirsute. In the environs of Callao. 



Lantana (No. 10). One of the most ornamental of the known species ; a shrub, six to 

 ten feet high ; densely hirsute ; capit. of flowers three-colored, orange, red, and .... 

 Frequent on the exsiccated portions of the river-bed of the Rimac, from Lima to its 

 mouth. 



Verbena (No. 17). Two to four feet high ; leaves cuneate, dentate. Frequent in the 



environs of Callao and Lima. 

 Ruellia (No. 13) ; having small white flowers. On the Northern prolongation of the 



Amancaes mountain-heights. 

 ? (No. 14); or compare Justicia. Pubescent, glutinous; having long scarlet 



flowers. In the vicinity of Yanga, growing on the Desert upland. 

 Justicia repens, Ruiz & Pav. (No. 36) ; broad, canescent leaves ; long red flowers. In 



the environs of Lima, growing on the Desert upland. 

 Plumbago (No. 7) ; leaves amplexicaul at base, somewhat panduriform ; flowers blue. 



On the Amancaes mountain-heights. 

 Boerhaavia hirsuta, Ruiz & Pav., non alior. (No. 13). Decumbent; pubescent; the 



flowers small. In the environs of Lima. 

 scandens, (No. 14). Stems long, weak, branching, spreading among bushes to 



height of six feet or more; flowers purple, a fourth of an inch in length. From Lima 



to the Andes. 



Gen. Nyctagin ? (No. 1). Leaves opposite, incano-pubescent, broad, curled ; flowers not 



seen. On the sea-shore of the island of San Lorenzo. 

 Calymenia? (No. 1). Glutinous; the stem hairy; leaves opposite, entire, plicate, pointed, 



curled. In the vicinity of Yanga, growing on the Desert upland. 

 ? (No. 2); perhaps a second species. Prostrate; the leaves more obtuse; the fruit 



smaller. In the vicinity of Yanga. 

 Salicornia Peruviana, (No. 11). Maritime; forming extensive beds in the depressed 



ground back of the sea-beach. 

 Gen. Chenopod. (No. 5). A shrub, a foot high; leaves crowded, short, linear, succulent, 



and very tender; flowers axillary. On the island of San Lorenzo and around Lima, 



growing on the Desert upland. 

 Chenopodium (No. 12). Like C. rubrum, but the leaves crowded. On the summit of 



the Amancaes mountain-ridge. 



Lycopersicum esculentum, (No. 4; bis Manilla, Oregon, and our Atlantic States). Toma- 

 toes abundant in the market ; the plant not seen wild. 



Priva (No. 1 ; bis Brazil and Taheiti). In waste ground in the outskirts of Lima; natu- 

 ralized. 



Plantago major ? (compare Western Oregon, our Atlantic States, New Zealand, Chili, 

 and No. 14 Austria). In the vicinity of Caballeros. No specimens. 



