138 MR. J. MIEltS US SOME 



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patent or deflected, 12-20 lines long, \ line broad ; inflorescence 

 terminal, capitate, subglobular, ^-in. broad, upon a peduncle bare 

 at its base for |-1 in. ; flowers numerous, sessile, very approxi- 

 mated ; calycle depressed ; calyx small, globose, -f line broad, 4- 

 costate, with unequal, short, acute teeth, one being a little larger ; 

 tube of corolla cylindrical, curved, 3 lines long; segments oblong, 

 acute, 2 lines long, \ line broad, yellow and glabrous inside, 

 greenish outside, as well as the tube ; stamens, style, and stigma 

 exserted as far as the tips of the segments. 



7. Quinchamalium fruticulosum, Steud. Norn, ii. p. 429 ; A. 

 DO. I c. p. 62G (Bertero, 1271), sine char. : v. s. in herb, meo, 

 (19555) Chile, Cordillera de Chilian (Germain). 



A suffruticose plant, with decumbent stem branching dichoto- 

 ly or alternately ; branches 5 in. high, slender, erect, sub- 

 angular, finely striolated, glabrous ; leaves 2 lines apart, younger 

 ones closer and subimbricated, spathulately linear, sessile, obtuse 

 at the base, mucronulate at the apex, curvingly patent, 1-nerved, 

 with many thickish horizontal veins, 6-8 lines long, ^ line broad ; 

 inflorescence terminal in a subcapitate head ; flowers approxi- 

 mated ; calycles crowded on the spicate peduncle ; calyx small, 

 globular, 4-dentate, the external tooth narrow, as long as the 

 calycine tube ; tube of corolla slender, striolated, obsoletely 

 pilose, 2^ lines long ; segments acute, subreflexed, with the tube 

 externally greenish, bright )ellow r and glabrous within, 1^ line 

 long, ^ line broad ; stamens inserted in the mouth ; anthers half 

 exserted. 



These three genera were assigned to the Santalacece by Prof, 

 A. DeCandolle in 1856 *, and about the same time also by the 

 authors of the ' Genera Plantarum' f, because of the supposed 

 presence of a perigonium, which signifies that the calyx and 

 corolla are combined into one body. But it is shown by the 

 preceding details that in each of these instances there exists a 

 calyx, which, though small, is invariably present, always free and 

 distinct from the corolla, and in each genus supported by a free 

 calycle. Thus it is manifest that these three genera cannot 

 belong to Santalacece, and there can be no doubt whatever that 

 they agree in all respects with Olacacece, with the addition of a 



* Prodr. xiv. pp. 624, 626, 627. I Gen. i. p. o4b. 



