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foliage, than the Mutism. One species, the M. speclosa, 

 has heen cultivated at the Royal Gardens at KeWj and figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine^ at the first plate of the New Se- 



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ries of that work ; hut as it has pinnated leaves, somewhat 

 similar to those of a Vicia, the plant assumes an appearance 

 very unlike the present individual. For representations of 

 other Mutisi(E, we are hitherto indehted almost wholly to 

 Cavanilles and Humholdt. 



I intend to make known, hy this work, some interesting 

 species which I have received from my valuahle correspond- 

 dents W. Cruickshanks, Esq. of Valparaiso, and Dr. Gillies 

 of Mendoza ; and I shall esteem myself happy thus to he the 

 means of recommending them to the horticulturist, as no 

 plants can he more worthy of a place in our stoves. 



Fig. 1 . Floret of the ray. Fig. 2. Floret of the disk. Fig. 3. Base 



of the style to show the sheath which surrounds it. Fig. 4. Base 

 of an anther : — more or less magyiified. 



MUTISIA RUNCINATA. 



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Mutisia runcinata^ foliis lanceolatis ruiicinatis decurrentibus cirrhosis, 



subtus albo-tomentosis. (Tab. V.) 

 Mutisia runcinata. Willd. Sp* PL v. 3. p. 2069. Spreng. Syst VegeL 



V. 3. p. 505. 

 Mutisia retrorsa. Cav. Ic. 5. p. 65, U 498. Pers. Syn, PL v. 2. p. 453- 



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Hab. Apud Quebradas, prope villain Vicenziara in Chili. Z). Gillies. 



Caulis frutescens, scandens, flexuosus, angulatus, foliis decurrentibus 



alatus. Folia alterna, rigid iuscula, lanceolata^ runcinata, basi 

 utrinque in alas decurrentia, supra glabra, subtus albo-tomentosa, 

 apice cirrho simplici terminata. Flores ad aplcem ramorum 

 terminales. Inxdlucrum ovato-cylindraceum, squamis infimis par- 

 vis, reflexis, reliquis magnis, erectis, ovatis, submembranaceis. 

 "CoroUae radii lineares, tridentatae," [Willd.) 



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