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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



( fasciculata of Gray, No. 5; recorded as) gen. Stellarioid; having the habit of 



the preceding plant. Annual; leaves sessile, broad-ovate; flowers crowded in a termi- 

 nal cluster, with scarious bracts; calyx a fourth of an inch long; petals bifid. In the 

 environs of Obrajillo. 



(Malvastrum, No. 2 ; recorded as) Malva ?, near M. Liniensis. Annual?; three inches 

 to two feet; leaves repand, deeply 3-5 lobed ; calyx pilose, the segments of the outer 

 calyx linear ; flowers small, blue. In the environs of Obrajillo. 



( , No. 3 ; recorded as) gen. Malvac. ?. One to two feet high ; densely tomentose ; 



leaves repand, dentate; outer calyx of three linear segments; flowers small, pale blue; 

 carpels with tomentose awns. In the environs of Obrajillo. 



( , No. 4 ; recorded as) gen. Malvac.?; a second species. Annual; with small 



blue flowers; calyx naked, or simple; carpels five, tubcrculate, biaristate. In the 

 lower portion of the region, along the ascent to Obrajillo. 



Abutilon ? ( No. 11) ; leaves pubescent, broad-cordate ; flowers yellow ; carpels about four- 

 teen, mutic. In the lower portion of the region, along the ascent to Obrajillo. 



Waltheria? (compare No. 3 Yaso in Lower Peru), and also Sida. A shrub, three to six 

 feet high ; leaves large, dentate, somewhat strigose ; linear bracts ; but the calyx naked 

 or simple ; flowers yellow, crowded in the axils. Extending into the lower portion of 

 the region, below Obrajillo. 



Cardiospermum (compare No. 2 Amancaes mountain in Lower Peru). Decumbent, many 

 stemmed, pubescent. In the lower portion of the region, along the ascent to Obrajillo. 



Linum (compare No. 10 Lower Chili). The flowers yellow. In the environs of Obrajillo. 



Geranium (No. 14). One to two feet, herbaceous, weak-stemmed, covered with long 

 pubescence; leaves three to five-lobed, incised; flowers small; the carpels also covered 

 with long pubescence. Along the upper margin of the region at Banos. 



Tropaeolum (No. 3); leaves peltate, slightly lobed, with a deeper emargination at base; 

 flowers deep orange. Frequent in the lower portion of the region, along the ascent to 

 Obrajillo. 



(No. 4); leaves deeply four-lobed ; flowers scarlet. Frequent in the Canta Yalley, 



from Obrajillo to the Paramera at Culuay. 

 Oxalis (compare No. 29 Amancaes mountain in Lower Peru). Slightly hairy; and having 



a woody root; calyx-segments broad at base, cordate?. At Banos, and elsewhere in the 



mountain-region. 



(No. 30). Annual; half an inch to an inch high, minutely pubescent; scarious 



sheaths at base ; leaflets obcordate ; flowers very small, yellow. In the upper portion 

 of the region, along the ascent to Culuay, and in the Chancay Valley at Banos. 



Lupinus (No. 26). Suff'ruticose, three to five feet high, with spreading branches; leaflets 

 six to seven, sericeous beneath ; flowers large, blue and white. Growing along the 

 ascent to Obrajillo, and also at the upper margin of the region at Banos. 



?; two to four feet long, the stem weak; stipules; leaves roundish-ovate, dentate. 



In the vicinity of Obrajillo. 

 ; perhaps a fourth species. 



TropEeolum tuberosum, (No. 5) ; three-lobed leaves, and not seen in flower. The root 

 edible, even in the crude state. (Of Aboriginal cultivation ; and at the present day) 

 abundantly planted in the upper portion of the region, as far as the Paramera. 



