248 NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
for two years I had sought in vain in other 
localities. But I was most pleased to find a moss 
with large laciniato-ciliate leaves — so novel a 
feature in this tribe that I took it for a Plagiochila, 
until I found the capsules nestling amongst the 
terminal leaves. 
To return, however, to our Cascarillas, of which 
there are two sorts in Llalla, the one called 
" Ciichi-cara" or Pig-skin, because dried pieces of 
the bark resemble morsels of pig's skin boiled and. 
then grilled (which is a favourite dish in Ecuador). 
The same bark is sometimes called Chaucha, a 
term implying thickness without much consistence ; 
as, for example, in this bark, which shrinks much 
in drying, and in a sort of large watery potato, 
called Chauchas. The other bark is called Pata 
de gallinazo " or Turkey-buzzard's foot ; it does not 
peel off freely like the other, and when dried gener- 
ally occurs in small split fragments, but as it is 
rather deeper-coloured it is more esteemed than 
the Cuchicara. The same or similar kinds are 
known in other districts as Cascarilla naranjada. 
The demand for either kind has of late years been 
very slight, so that there has not been such 
destruction of these barks as of the red, and on a 
stony hill-side not far from the hut I found above 
twenty large trees of the Cuchicara, from 40 to 50 
feet high. All had fruited freely this year, but the 
capsules were already empty, with the exception of 
one small corymb. In the forest of Yalancay, on 
the opposite side of the river and near the road 
leading from Alausi to Guayaquil, I afterwards 
found a tree with recent fruit and even a few 
flowers. The latter are deep brick- red, and the 
