HEIGHTS ABOUT VALPARAISO. 



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gently sloping hills, extensive thickets, which, interlaced with fine Mutisias, 

 constitute as peculiar a feature of the district as any of the previously mentioned 

 plants. Amongst the brushwood to the left, sheltered to some extent from violent 

 winds, may be recognised traces of the vegetation of the valleys, three plants 

 characteristic of the country: — 1. FucJtsia lycioides, now a leafless shrub, but 



Lobelia Tujpa, the dark red terminal blossoms of which could scarcely be indicated 



in our plate ( 3 | 4 j ; and 3. a beautiful Loranthus, a thick bushy shrub, densely 



covered with leaves and growing parasitically in most trees, here in an old Lithi : 

 it is highly ornamental, especially in the dry season, on account of its dark fresh 

 green foliage and splendid red bunches of flowers, much visited by humming-birds 



covered with a number of flowers of a carmine colour ( 5 | 6 - J ; 2. the shrubby 



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