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Stems slender, 2-4, flexuose, 8-12 in. high, shortly branching 

 towards the summit, glabrous, bare below the middle ; leaves 

 spreading, acutely linear, sessile, glabrous, 6-12 lines long, | line 

 broad, upper ones minutely ciliate on the margins ; inflorescence 

 terminal ; flowers spicate, subapproximate ; calycles depressed- 

 cupular, attached to the 4 faces of the peduncle in close order ; 

 calyx small, globular, rugose at the base, 4-dentate, teeth ovate, 

 minute, except the external one, w r hich is much longer, suddenly 

 acute, with a red margin ; tube of corolla slender, widening in the 

 mouth, 3^ lines long, glabrous, purplish ; segments narrow, linear, 

 acute, yellow, 2| lines long, 3-nerved at the base ; stamens 

 exserted ; anthers narrow r , linear ; fruit rugous according to 

 PhiKppi. A species much resembling Q. gracilis in habit. 



5. Quinchamalium gracile, Brongn. ex Hombron, Voy. Coq. 

 tab. 52, sine descr. (1825) ; Gay, Chile, v. 320 (1819) ; A. DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. p. 625 (1856). — Quinchamalium chilense, var. gracile, 

 Hook. Voy. Beechey, p. 44 (1841). — Quinchamalium ericoides, 

 Brongn. 1. c. tab. 52 ; Gay, Chile, I. c. p. 320 (1849).— Quincha- 

 malium minutum, Phil. Ann. Univ. Chile (1862); Linn, xxxiii. 

 p. 233 (1864). — Quinchamala tenuis, Stend. Nomencl. ii. p. 429 

 (1841). In Chile, prov. austro-centr. : v. s. in herb, rneo, (n. 7934) 

 ins. Chiloe (Capt. King), (n. 6630) Concepcion (Dr. Miller), 

 (n. 21039) Chile (Cuming). 



A very slender, flexuous, fibrilliferous root, 3% inches long, 

 throwing up about 3 erect slender stems 2-3£ inches high ; leaves 

 very slender, linear, erecto-divergent, subfalcate, mucronate, gla- 

 brous, approximate, 4-9 lines long, ^—^ line broad, on a very 

 slender petiole ^-1 line long ; inflorescence terminal, in a small • 

 capitate head, consisting of many small, orange-coloured, approxi- 

 mated flowers ; corolla tubular, divided for half its length into 5 

 acute segments ; stamens included, style subexserted ; fruit small, 

 globular, 5-costate, of a lemon-colour, enclosed within the free 

 calyx, which has 5 unequal small teeth. 



6. Quinchamalium elegans, Presl, Epim. Bot. p. 246 (1851) ; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 315. — Quinchamala tenuis, Steud. Nom.n. p. 429, ex 



plant, sub Q. Chilense (Bertero, 581). In Chile, prov. Central. : v. s. 

 in herb, meo, (20661) Chile {Bridges, 366), (21088) Chile (Cuming). 

 Stems several, slender, subdecumbent, curving upwards, | line 

 thick, striolated, glabrous, foliiferous from the base ; axils 1-3 lines 

 apart ; leaves linear, almost filiform, with a pungent point, very 



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