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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Pratia (compare No. 3 lower down, in the Paramera at Banos) ; leaves narrow obtuse. 



In the tract of wet ground near Casa-Cancha. 

 (Halenia) umbellata, (bis No. 2 lower down, in the Paramera at Baiios). Extending into 



the alpine region. 



Gentiana (bis No. 14 and 4, lower down in the Paramera at Baiios). Extending into the 

 alpine region. 



— ■ (No. 15, and No. 5 with the corolla spreading). Two to three inches; many- 

 stemmed from a woody root ; leaves a fourth of an inch, oblong, recurved, crowded ; 

 calyx-segments broad, the corolla twice as long as the calyx, spreading. In the environs 

 of Casa-Oancha. 



" — ' (No. 16, and No. 6 with the corolla spreading). Two to three inches, many- 

 stemmed; calyx-segments somewhat acute or pointed; corolla deeply parted, blue, with 

 a central darker spot. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



• (No. 17, and No. 7 with the corolla spreading). Three to four inches; leaves 



sessile, ovate ; calyx rather deeply cleft, the segments obtuse ; corolla large, two-thirds 

 of an inch, deeply cleft. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



• — (No. 18, and No. 8 with the corolla spreading). One to two inches high, many- 

 stemmed ; leaves linear, obtuse ; calyx-segments obtuse ; corolla short, only an eighth 

 of an inch, but broad and spreading. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



• (No. 19, and No. 9 with the corolla spreading) ; a sixth species. 



— ? (No. 20). Leaves half an inch long, spatulate, lanceolate; scape or peduncle an 



inch high ; corolla red, two-thirds of an inch in length, not spreading. In the environs 

 of Casa-Cancha, and elsewhere in the alpine region. 



Nov. gen. near Gentiana, (No. 1). Growing in tufts; leaves linear; flowers ornamental; 

 corolla at summit rotate, the tube a third of an inch long, the ten segments alter- 

 nately blue and white; capsule long-pedicelled, projecting beyond the corolla. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha, and elsewhere in the alpine region. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. Ornamental ; growing in tufts ; the leaves broad, 



short, triquetrous ; calyx-segments triquetrous, obtuse ; corolla rotate, tcn-cleft. On 

 the Alpamarca mountain-peak. 



Aldea pinnata, Ruiz & Pav. (bis lower down to the base of the Andes, and No. 2 Chili 

 and the Chilian Andes ; compare also No. 1 California and Oregon). Now depressed, 

 having assumed the universal congested alpine habit of growth. 



Jovellana (No. 1). Upper surface of the leaves very hairy ; scapes three to four inches 

 high ; flowers large ; calyx-segments broad ; the capsule pubescent. In clefts of rocks 

 on the crest of the Andes, where traversed by the Canta route. 



plantaginea, (No. 2) ; a second species with denticulate leaves. Growing with 



the preceding in clefts of rocks. 



Bartsia ? (bis No. 3 lower down, in the Paramera at Banos) ; small-flowered. Growing 

 in the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



? (No. 4). Two to three inches high ; moi'e closely pubescent ; the leaves smaller; 



the corolla longer than the calyx. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



(Castilleia, No. 4 ; recorded as) Euchroma ?. Two to three inches high ; smoothish ; the 

 upper leaves not colored ; flowers rather small. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



( No. 5) ; perhaps distinct from the preceding. An inch high, many-stemmed, 



smoothish ; the upper leaves not colored ; flowers small ; the capsule large. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha. 



