I70 NOTES OF A BOTANIST chap.xvih 
deal of a slender inclined Chouta (Euterpe), rarely 
exceeding 15 feet, which affords a delicious palmito. 
On the opposite side of the Pastasa, in this part, 
rise steep hills clad to the very summit with Iriartea 
ventricosa. I have nowhere seen so dense a palm- 
vegetation, save in the Mauritia swamps of the 
Amazon. 
Among inundated rocks at the Topo, Puyu, etc., 
I noticed the same small bushy Cupheae as on 
Bombonasa. 
