Tas. 7748. 
ADESMIA BORONIOIDES. 
Native of South-Eastern Patagonia. 
Nat. Ord. Lecuminose”.—Tribe HepYsAREa, 
Genus Apsesmi, DC. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 517.) 
Aprsmra boronioides; frutex humilis, petalis exceptis glandulis magnis sessilibus 
verrucosus, ramulis robustis, foliis breviter petiolatis linearibus, foliclis 
10-12-jugis cum impari subconfertis fere orbicularibus } poll. diam. grosse 
crenatis supra luride viridibus, petiolo rhachique crassiusculis, racemis 
elongatis erectis multifloris rhachi robusta viridi, floribus 3 poll. longis, 
pedicellis brevibus crassiuseulis, bracteolis in pulvillam tubereulatam 
mutatis, calycis campanulati glandulosi et pilosuli lobis ohtusis, vexillo 
orbiculari aurantiaco infra medium purpureo striato, alis oblique oblongis 
aureis, carina brevi virescente, legumine 3-d-articulato dehiscente 
glanduloso-piloso et punctis nigris adsperso. 
A. boronioides, Huok. f. Fl. Antarct. vol. i. pars ii. p. 257. OC. Gay, Fl. Chil. 
vol. ii. p. 182. 
Adesmia is a large South American genus of plants, con- 
sisting of about 170 species, according to the ‘* Kew Index,” 
of which, however, many are no doubt synonyms, for 
Bentham, in the “ Genera Plantarum,” says of the 110 
species supposed to be known, “ plures a diversis auctoribus 
bis terve repetite et vix ultra 80 species bone in herbariis 
nostris servantur.” The fact is that the genus has not 
been monographed since 1825, when nine species only were 
known to De Candolle, and published in his ‘* Prodromus.” 
One only has been figured in this work, 4. balsamica, 
Bert., which yields an exquisite balsamic odour. 
A. boronioides ig a native of South-Eastern Patagonia, 
where it was first collected at Cape Fairweather, in about 
lat. 52° §. by Capt. King, R.N., during his survey of the 
extreme south of Chili, Patagonia, and Fuegia. It has 
since been collected on the hills at the entrance of the 
Straits of Magellan on the N. side, at Cape Possession, 
at Mt. Direction, and at Port Deseado. It is described 
by Dr. Cunningham, in his “ Notes on the Natural History 
of the Straits of Magellan,” as forming a shrub with 
a stem eighteen inches high, covered with glands that 
yield a viscid substance having a balsamic odour. 
The specimen figured was sent to Kew for the determina- 
DecemsBer Ist, 1900. 
