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capsules are usually elongate-oblong, but vary to 
roundish oblong. Trees of the Pata de gallinazo 
were scarce, and I did not see any in flower or 
fruit. Both sorts have the leaves broadly oval, 
with or without a slight apiculus, and pubescent 
beneath ; but in the Cuchicara the petiole and 
midrib are red, which is not the case with those of 
the Pata de gallinazo, nor do the leaves of the 
latter turn so red with age. . . . 
Of the trees growing along with the Cascarillas 
in Llalla the Motilon was the most frequent and 
the largest, attaining sometimes 60 feet in height. 
This is the second species I have gathered under 
this name ; the fruit is an edible drupe, but I 
hesitate to refer the genus to Amygdaleae until I 
see the flower. With the Motilon grew, however, 
a true Cerasus, with very large leaves ; it had 
flowers and young fruit. Other trees in the same 
forest were the Hualla, the Ignia, a Berberis, a 
Rhamnus, a Nonatelia, two Myrtaceae, and especi- 
ally an arborescent Loranthus, with dense spikes 
of fragrant yellow flowers — the leaves on some 
ramuli alternate, on others opposite, and on others 
three together. . . . The shrubs included a Barna- 
desia, two Salviae, a sarmentose Fuchsia, and most 
abundant and ornamental, an aphyllous Fuchsia, 
epiphytal and climbing high up the trees, which it 
adorned with its large vermilion flowers. 
Patches of verdant pasture were scattered in the 
forests, and in these I gathered a stoloniferous 
Ranunculus new to me, a small Juncus, a curious 
Rubiacea allied to Richardsonia, two lonidia, the 
one with red the other with scarlet flowers, and 
some other herbs. In the woods there was also a 
