Chilian seeds, presented to the Society by Francis Place, 
Esq. The species now described is a tender annual, flower- 
ing through the autumn, but not ripening its seeds in the 
open air. 
For the whole of this article we are indebted to our 
friend Don Mariano Lagasca, Professor of Botany at Ma- 
drid, who, driven by the calamities of civil discord from 
his native country, is now a resident in London, an exile 
among strangers. Of the following valuable account of the 
other species of this genus we are enabled, by the kindness 
of the same distinguished Botanist, to avail ourselves, for 
the use of this publication. 
1. TRIPTILION spinosum ( Ruiz et Pav.); folis radicalibus pinnatifidis, 
caulinis sessilibus inciso-dentatis spinosis ; caule superne paniculato- 
corymboso. 
TRIPTILION spinosum.— Ruiz et Pav. syst. veg. Fl. per. et chil. vol. 1. 
p.195! Flor. per.et chil. vol. 6. tab.ined.! Willd. sp. pl. 3. p. 1626. 
Pers. syn. pl. 2. p. 379. Lag. amen. nat. vol. 1. no. 1º. Decand. 
annal. du mus. de par. vol. 19. p. 67. Poir. encycl. 8. p. 115. 
Habitat in Chili campis et collibus circa Conceptionis urbem 
alibique. Ruiz et Pav. l.c. X. v.s. 
Planta herbacea spythamea, pedalisque, Caulis teres subfili- 
formis, flexuosus, sordide purpurascens, superne presertim subhir- 
sutus et paniculato-corymbosus; inferne zetate glaber, vel subglaber, 
axillis inferioribus sepe ramorum rudimentis stipatis. Folia radicalia 
pinnatifida, spinoso-dentata; laciniis inferioribus sensim brevioribus; 
caulina sessilia, subamplexicaulia, oblonga, subpollicaria, mucrona- 
to-spinosa, dentibus utrinque 2-4, profundis subulatis spinosis sub- 
pinnatifida, utrinque pilosula, scabriuscula ; ramulorum minora, sum- 
ma subintegerrima. Corolle labium exterius pulchre purpureo-czru- 
leum. Pappus calyce longior, paleis apice densissime barbatis albis. 
2. TRIPTILION cordifolium. Lag. vid. supra. 
3, TRIPTILION glomerulosum ( Lag.), caule fruticoso ramoso prostrato 
foliorum minutorum glomerulis apice floriferis obtecto: floribus sessi- 
libus subsessilibusque. E 
TRIPT. glomerulosum. Lagas. Amenid. natur. de las Espanas, vol. 1. 
no. 19. 
Habitat in Chili. Bb. v. s. 
Fruticulus prostratus valde ramosus, semi-unipedalis, foliorum 
minutorum glomerulis undique dense obtectus. Flores solitarii, gemini, 
ternive, in glomerulorum apice sessiles, aut subsessiles, duplo fere 
majores quam in Tript. spinoso. 
4, TRIPTILION azillare (Lag.); caule fruticoso, ramoso: foliis subulatis 
indivisis sessilibus spinescentibus; floribus axillaribus subsessilibus. 
TRIPTILION axillare. Lag. Amen. nat. l. c. 
Habitat in Chili. h. v.s. 
Caulis ut in precedente, sed foliorum glomerulis minime obtectus. 
Folia alterna sessilia, subulata, integra, integerrimaque, spinescentia. 
Flores axillares subterni, 
J. Le 
