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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Valeriana (No. 8). Two to three feet; leaves pinnatisect; dentate. In the environs of 

 Obrajillo. 



(No. 9). Two to three feet, herbaceous and weak-stemmed ; leaves lanceolate, 



with a few lacinite, the radical leaves long-petioled. In the environs of Obrajillo; and 



along the upper margin of the region at Baiios. 

 (No. 10). Herbaceous, three to-five feet; leaves broad, pinnatisect, divided into 



three or four pairs of lobes, besides the terminal lobe ; a large leafy panicle. Along the 



upper margin of the region at Bancs. 

 (Achyrophorus ? No. 2). One to two feet high; Hieracium-like, but the pappus pedi- 



celled ; leaves mostly radical ; calyx-scales in two to three series. In the environs of 



Obrajillo. 



Leontodon (No, 4). Stemless ; leaves lanceolate, slightly dentate ; flowers large. In the 



Canta Valley, from Obrajillo to the Paramera at Culuay. 

 Gen. Cichorac. (No. 1). Twelve to eighteen inches high; habit of N. American Bark- 



hausia (Pyrrhopappus), but the pappus sessile ; leaves mostly radical, smooth, lyrate, 



dentate. In the upper portion of the region, along the ascent to Culuay. 

 (Barnadesia) spinosa ? (No. 1) ; Bacasia of some writers. An ornamental shrub, four to 



eight feet high, with large purple flowers ; leaves and young twigs somewhat tomentose ; 



calyx-scales long, and tomentose. Frequent in the upper portion of the region, along 



the ascent to Culuay. 



( ) corymbosa ? (No. 2); perhaps not distinct from the last; agreeing in habit 



and in the leaves, but the flowers corymbose, and no floret-rays. At the cascade 

 opposite Obrajillo. 



Mutisia (No. 4) ; stem alate, and the alae dentate ; leaves auriculate at base, sessile, almost 



linear. In the upper portion of the region, along the ascent to Culuay. 

 (No. 5) ; highly ornamental ; the leaves pinnate. Abounding in the environs of 



Obrajillo, and elsewhere in the mountain-region. No specimens. 

 Pclyachyrus (echinopsoides ?, No. 2). Spreading, lanate; leaves amplexicaul, auriculate, 



lyrately pinnatisect. In the upper portion of the region, along the ascent to Culuay; rare. 

 Dumerilia (bis No. 1 Yaso in Lower Peru). Two to three feet high; leaves an inch in 



length and breadth, appendiculate at base, seven-lobed, tomentose beneath; flowers 



solitary, large ; the floret-rays purple. Throughout the lower portion of the region, as 



far as and around Obrajillo. 

 (No. 2). A shrub, three to five feet high ; the stem pubescent ; leaves pubescent 



on both sides; flowers corymbose, devoid of floret-rays?. In the lower portion of the 



region, as far as and around Obrajillo. 

 (No. 3). A shrub, five feet high ; stem and upper surface of the leaves smooth ; 



flowers not seen. In the lower portion of the region, along the ascent to Obrajillo ; 



somewhat rare. 



(Gen. Compos.? No. 1 ; recorded as) gen. incert.. A branching bushy shrub, with ter- 

 minal branching spines; leaves oblong, attenuate, obtuse, serrate, acuminate; the 

 under surface reticulate; flowers not seen. In the lower portion of the region, grow- 

 ing about a league from Obrajillo. 



Daucus ?. Weak, diS'use, branching ; the involucral leaves dissected. Growing around 

 Obrajillo. 



