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1 70 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.XVUI<br />

deal of a slender inclined Chouta (Euterpe), rarely<br />

exceeding 15 feet, which affords a delicious palmito.<br />

On the opposite side of the Pastasa, in this part,<br />

rise steep hills clad to the very summit with Iriartea<br />

ventricosa. I have nowhere seen so dense a palm-<br />

vegetation, save in the Mauritia swamps<br />

of the<br />

Amazon.<br />

Among inundated rocks at the Topo, Puyu, etc.,<br />

I noticed the same small bushy Cupheae as on<br />

Bombonasa.

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