136 MR. J. MIEBS ON SOME 



with valvate sestivation ; stamens 5, altogether exserted, inserted 

 in the mouth of the tube opposite the segments ; filaments 

 slender, as long as the anthers, which reach the top of the 

 segments ; anthers as in the gen. char. ; style slender, 3-grooved ; 

 stigmata 3, roundish ; ovary globular, 3-costate, crowned by the 

 5-glandular disk, 1-locular ; ovules 3, suspended from the apex of 

 a free central placenta ; fruit globular, enclosed within the free 

 calyx, its structure as in the generic character. 



3. QUINCHAMALIUM PROCUMBENS, B. Sf P. FIoT. PeTUV. ii. p. 1, 



tab. 107 b. — Q. chilense, Lam. {non Molina) Illustr. ii. 135, tab. 

 142 ; id. Bid. Suppl. iv. p. 638, tab. 142 ; A. BC. in parte, 

 Prodr. xiv. p. 625. — Quinchamalium Dombeyi, Brongn. ex Ilombron, 

 Voy. Coq. tab. 58, sine descript. ; A. BC. Prodr. xiv. p. 626. — 

 Quinchamalium linifolium, Meyer {non Feuille), Nov. Act. xix. 

 Suppl. p. 412. In Peruvia, prov. Tarma : non vidi. 



As the details given by Brongniart and Meyer offer no characters 

 at variance with those afforded by Euiz and Pavon, all the above 

 citations may be comprised under one species. Root fusiform, 

 from which arise 7 or 8 stems, the 2 external ones procumbent, 

 the others divergent or erect, 5 in. long, mostly simple, slender, 

 glabrous, striate ; leaves linear, sessile, acute at the apex, marked 

 at the base by a purple spot, sparse, erecto-divergent, glabrous, 

 4-9 lines long, -^ line broad ; inflorescence terminal, bearing many 

 spicately congested flowers in a dense head ; calycles depressed, 

 closely investing the faces of the quadrangular peduncle ; calyx 

 globular, with an oblique mouth, showing 4 small acute teeth, 

 one of which is somewhat longer ; corolla tubular, purplish red 

 outside, yellow within, glabrous ; tube cylindrical, pentangular, 

 9 lines long ; segments 5, acutely oblong, 3 lines long, f line 

 broad, expanded ; stamens inserted in the mouth, exserted ; style 

 slender, reaching the stamens ; ovary small, globose, invested by 

 the free calyx ; pericarp globose, enclosed within the calyx, now 

 somewhat enlarged. 



4. Quinchamalium majus, Brongn. ex Ilombron, Voy. Coq. tab. 

 51 A, sine descr. ; A. BC. I.e. p. 625 ; Gay, Chile, v. 319. 

 Quinchamalium chilense, var. robustior, Hook. Voy. Beechey, p. 44. 



Quinchamalium breviflorum, Presl, Epim. Bot. p. 246. — Quin- 

 chamalium rugosum, Phil. Linn, xxxiii. p. 233. In Chile, prov. 

 Central : v. v. et sice, in herb, meo (227*), Quintero, prov. 

 Valparaiso. 



