Tas. 5799. 
NERTERA DEPRESSA. 
Depressed Nertera. 
Nat. Ord. Rupracea.—TETRANDRIA Monoernia. 
Gen. Char.—Flores hermaphroditi.  Calycis tubus ovoideus; limbus _ 
truncatus v. obscure 4-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa v. infundibuliformis, 
4-loba. Stamina 4; filamenta basi corolle inserta; antheris exsertis. 
Ovarium 2-loculare ; Joculis 1-ovulatis. Styli 2, elongati, exserti, undique 
piloso-stigmatiferi. Bacca globosa, carnosa, dicocca; coccis coriaceis, 
1-spermis. Semina plano-convexa, intus sulcata.—Herbe parve, repentes ; 
foliis sempervirentibus ;  stipulis intrafoliaceis ;  floribus axillaribus, sub-— 
sessilibus. : ) 
Nerrera depressa; glaberrima, caulibus repentibus, ramulis suberectis v- 
demissis, foliis petiolatis late ovatis acutis, calycibus ovariisque glaber- 
rimis, embryone majusculo, 
Nerrera depressa, Banks and Sol. in Gertn. Fruct. v. i. p. 124, t. 26. 
D.C. Prod. v. iv. p. 451. Smith, Ic. ined. v. ii. t. 28. Hook. f. Fl. 
Tasm. v. i. p. 167. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 120. . 
Nerrera repens, Ruiz and Pav. Fl. Peruv., v. i. p. 60, t. 90. 
Eryrnropamum alsineforme, Pet. Thouar, Fl. Trist. @Acunha, p. 42. t. 10. 
GonoziA granatensis, Mutis in Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 29. 
Though when in flower one of the most insignificant of 
flowering plants, when covered with its translucent orange 
fruit, which it keeps for a long period, this is one of the 
most charming of rockwork plants. It is a native of the 
bleak cold Antarctic mountains throughout the southern 
hemisphere, where I have gathered it in Lord Auckland and 
Campbell Tslands, the Falkland Islands, and Cape Horn; it 
also inhabits Tristan d’Acunha, the mountains of New Zea- 
land and Tasmania, and follows the Andes from Cape Horn 
to New Grenada. oe 
The specimen here figured flowered in June, and fruited in 
ocroBer Isr, 1869. 
