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246 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
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,
Ehretiacese, and two Acanthacese, which last order
seems entirely absent from the cold region ;
also
a suffruticose 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 Composite, whereof one resembled
a Spiraea in aspect and in the odour of its numerous
small white flowers but there was also a new
;
Biittneria, 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 Bignoniacea
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
Dclostoma integrifolinvi, 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