Tas. 8125.; 
CAIOPHORA coronata. 
a The Andes. 
LoasacEaE. Tribe Loasraz. 
Caropuora, Presl; Urb. et Gilg. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. vol. Ixxvi. p. 268. 
Blamenbachia, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 805, partim, 
Caiophora coronata, Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. iii. (1833), p. 327, 
Urb. et Gilg. l.c., p. 278; Reiche, Fl. Chile, vol. iii. p. 251; babitu ad CO. 
cirsitfoliam, Presl, et OC. cymbiferam, Urb. et Gilg, accedit; ab ambabus 
speciebus toliis magis dissectis, squama nectarifera fila 3 dorsalia gerente 
et staminodiis interivribus exappendiculatis recedit. 
Herba perennis. Caules plures, satis elongati, basi decumbentes. Folia 
opposita, decussata, infima rosulata, longipetiolata, ambitu ovata usque 
lanceolata, bipinnatisecta, pinnis ambitu ovatis usque lanceolatis, pinnulis 
integris vel serrato-dentatis, utrinque setis longis horridula, subtus 
subcano-pubescentes. Flores pseudolaterales, pentameri. Calyx dense 
setosus; lobi pinnatisecti. Petala cymbiformia, circ. 35 cm. longa, extra 
setosa et pubescentia, intus glubra. Squamae nectariferae rectangulares 
(explanatae), vix 5 mm. longae, circiter 5 mm. latae, leviter trilobatae, lol.is 
circ. 0°5 mm. longis, intermedio cire. 3 mm. lato, dorso fila tria cire. 1°5 mm. 
supra basin gerentes. Staminodia interiora exappendiculata. Capsula obo- 
voideo-obconica, decemnervis, recta.—C. absinthiifolia, Pres], Rel. Haenk. 
vol. ii. p. 43. Blumenbachia coronata, Haage et Schmidt in Rev. Hortic.} 
1874, p. 58, figs. 9,10. Loasa coronata, Gill. ex Arn. in Edinb. Journ. Geogr. 
Sc. vol. iii. (1831), p. 274. L. pilosa, Meyen, Reise, vol. i. p. 470. 
The Loasaceae afford a ‘good example of discontinuous 
distribution, twelve of the thirteen genera being endemic 
in America, and one, Kissenia, in Africa and Arabia. The 
family is perhaps best known on account of the long, 
stinging bristles which clothe most of the species. 
Another kind of hair, very characteristic of the 
Loasaceae, is much smaller, and provided with numerous 
barbs, by which the hairs readily become fixed in the skin 
of any animal touching them. 7 
The terete stem of Caiophora, and the much dilated or 
trifurcate placentas, distinguish the genus from Bluwmen- 
bachia, with which some authors have united it. The home 
of Caiophora is in the Andes of Chile, the Argentine 
Republic, Bolivia, and Peru; a single species, however, is 
found in Ecuador, one in Uruguay, and two or three in the 
south of Brazil. 
C. coronata is the most widely distributed species, and 
has been found at altitudes of 9,300-14,600 ft. above the 
Marcu Ist, 1907. 
