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It is impossible not to suspect that the species of this group 

 found on both coasts of the western hemisphere should all be 

 referred to the original Statice Limonium of Linnaeus. Along 

 with S. caroliniana, Walt., inhabiting the eastern coast of North 

 America from Newfoundland to South Carolina and Texas, 

 Boissier has described in DeCandolle's i Prodromus ' S. calif arnica 

 from the Pacific coast, and 8. brasiliensis, which extends on the 

 east coast of S. America from the neighbourhood of Bio Janeiro 

 to Southern Patagonia. To these Philippi has added a fourth 

 species, 8. chilensis, Linnaea, xxxiii. 220, apparently a rare plant 

 which he had received from only one locality. Of the forms 

 here enumerated the first is the most different from 8. Limonium, 

 but Boissier's 8. califomica is, in many respects, intermediate. 

 The characters assigned to these species are scarcely sufficiently 

 stable, and may most of them be paralleled among the undoubted 

 varieties of S. Limonium from different parts of Europe and the 

 Mediterranean region. Boissier is disposed to attach importance 

 to the presence or absence of hairs upon the calyx-tube, but 1 

 find this character to be very variable. In some specimens of 

 S. califomica the calyx is quite glabrous. I have not seen authentic 

 specimens of 8. chilensis, unless a specimen from Coquimbo and 

 another from Valparaiso in the Kew Herbarium should be referred 

 to it. Both specimens are quite immature with the flowering 

 branches undeveloped, but are not distinguishable from & 

 Limonium. The branches of the panicle in 8. brasiliensis are 

 described as scabrous ; in Mr. Andrews's specimens the branches 

 in the dried state are rough, but certainly not scabrous. 









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118. Buddleia globosa, Lam., var. foliis subtus albo-tomen- 

 tosis. " Local name Setamilla. Grows in abundance on slopes 

 of the pre- Cordillera. I have plants of this raised from seed I 

 sent to England in 1882."— W. Andrew*. This is, I believe, quite 

 new to the eastern side of South America. All the other 

 specimens I have seen are from Chili ; and in these the lower 

 surface of the leaf is covered with a reddish-brown tomentum. 



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