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Hieracium, a very pretty Leria with large blue 
flowers, growing on shady banks, and a branched 
Composita with silky- white leaves and handsome 
purple flowers, besides several Solaneae, Labiatae, 
Ehretiaceae, and two Acanthaceae, which last order 
seems entirely absent from the cold region ; also 
a suflruticose Lantana with yellow flowers, which 
I had not seen elsewhere. In moist places a little 
Cuphea was very abundant. The shrubberies con- 
sisted chiefly of Compositae, whereof one resembled 
a Spiraea in aspect and in the odour of its numerous 
small white flowers ; but there was also a new 
Buttneria, and the common Clematis of the warmer 
parts of the Cordillera climbed about everywhere. 
In cultivated ground, especially in the maize and 
cane fields, two delicate broad -leaved Paspala 
called Achi'n spring up in great abundance. 
Every day I saw the servants of the farm get 
bundles of them for the cows, pigs, etc., which ate 
them with greater avidity than even the alfalfa, so 
that, though weeds, they were nearly as valuable 
to the owner as the crops amongst which they 
grew. 
Among the trees, which grew chiefly along the 
banks of the river, were two species of Lycium not 
previously seen, an Inga, a Mimosa, and a Bigno- 
niacea with broad opposite leaves and cymes of 
large purple flowers. The last, known by the name 
of Hualla, is frequent in the Western Cordillera 
at from 6000 to 9000 feet, and is one of the best 
timber trees. It is not improbably the little-known 
Delostoma integrifolhwi, Don ; but it is not a Delo- 
stoma, for, besides an essential difference in the 
calyx, the septum is contrary to the valves, as in 
