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(baud omuino matura) sessili, clavata, striata, sulcata. Affiuis 

 (E prostrated, Cav., a qua differt foliis subintegerrimis petiolatis 

 glabris, et calyce fructifero duplo breviori ; ab (E. epilohiifolia 

 longius distat florum colore, capsula sessili, non tetraptera, 

 cseterisque notis. 



CEnotheea rosea. Ait. Upper valley of the Eimae, 8000- 

 10,000 feet ! A form with leaves broader and more numerous 

 than usual. 



QENoxnERA ? Above Casapalta, about 14,300 feet. A 



mere imperfect fragment of a dwarf species of this genus. 



LoASACEiB. 



Mentzelta HispiDA, Willd. Eimac valley, above Matucana, 

 -B. Ward. 



LoASA XANTiiiiEOLiA, Jtiss, ? Chicla ! A single dwarf spe- 

 cimen of a seedling with two small flowers ; rather uncertain. 



LoASA GRAN'DIFLOEA, Juss. Ann. Mtis, Par, v. p. 26, tab. 4; 

 Lam. Diet, Chicla ! All the leaves in my specimens are alter- 

 nate, the flowers of a deep orange. The long hairs which clothe 

 the entire plant are extremely stifl*, easily penetrating thick 



gloves. 



Blumej^bachia CARDUiroLiA=Loasa carduifolia, Presl. Com- 

 mon about Chicla! Puente Infernillo, S. Ward. The slender 

 but rather stiff* stems twine, although in this district the plant 

 ordinarily grows in positions where it can obtain no support by 

 so doing. 



Passiflokacejc. 



Malesherbia TnTBSiELORA, Buiz ^ Fav. Above Matucana, 

 flowering in May, collected by Mr. E. Ward. A curious species, 

 very unlike the Chilian plants formerly ranked under MalesJierhia, 

 but now united to Gynopleura in Bentb. & Hook. f. 'Gen. Plant.' 



CUCURBITACE^. 



Monog 



Chicla, on rocky ground, climbing over low bushes! 



