130 MR. J. M1EBS ON SOMfi 



with Malespina. Nee preserved a specimen, and made a coloured 

 drawing of it while in a living state ; from these ample materials 

 Cavanilles drew his illustration and his excellent description. It 

 is a small fruticose plant about 8 in. high, with a fusiform root 3 

 in. long, whose slender fibrils bear oblong tubers 10 lines long ; 

 the root at its summit throws out many erect simple or branching 

 stems, about 6 in. high, striated and furnished with numerous ap- 

 proximated linear-lanceolate leaves, channelled and somewhat am- 

 plexicaul at the base, pungently cuspidate at the apex, somewhat 

 recurvingly divergent, lower ones smaller, 6 lines long, upper 

 ones 9 lines long, 1-J line broad, tomentous : inflorescence termi- 

 nal, spicately corymbose, bearing numerous subapproximate ses- 

 sile flowers; calycle of each flower linear-lanceolate, subvaginant, 

 sharply cuspidate, 4| lines long, 1| line broad; sepals 2, laterally 

 placed, opposite, concave, oblong, acutely tridentate at the summit, 

 the middle tooth longest, glabrous, embracing the base of the 

 corolla: corolla yellow, tomentose outside; tube cylindrical, 6 

 lines long, slender ; segments ovate-oblong, subacute, with a ter- 

 minal short bristle, 3 lines long : stamens almost sessile within the 

 mouth of the tube ; anthers linear-oblong, yellow : ovary very small, 

 green, crowned by the yellow 5-lobedepigynous disk ; style filamen- 

 tous, red, reaching the stamens ; stigmata 2 or 3, lamellar; peri- 

 carp globular, crowned by the persistent disk, 1 line in diameter. 

 No mention is made of any hair or scales in the mouth of the 

 tube. Nee's specimen, I believe, is preserved in the herbarium 

 of the Academy of Madrid. 



2. Aejona patagonica, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Astrolabe, U 

 15 A, sine descr. ; Hook. Fl. Ant. ii. 342 ; Gay, Chile, v. 324. 

 Arjona tuberosa, Tar. patagonica, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 627. Ad 

 fretum Magalhaen portu Peckett : non vidi. 



This species was collected by Hombron and Jacquinot in 

 1826 : the New-Zealand portion of the plants obtained during the 

 voyage was described by Eichard in 1832 ; the other Phanero- 

 gamic plants were not described, but the illustrations of severa* 

 of them were given by Dr. Hombron in the Atlas of plates accom- 

 panying the octavo volume of Eichard. Dr. Hooker (I.e.) first 

 described this species, in a short diagnosis, from Hombron' s draw- 

 ing ; De Candolle, in 1856, enlarged this description from a plant 

 of Lechler's. 



It much resembles the typical species in size and habit, but is 



