SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 351 
bus; foliis subcoriaceis, pinnatifido-laciniatis, lobis dentatis, 
acutis ; floribus subsolitariis ; pedunculis extra-axilleribus, 
bractea brevi tenui subulata apice lanata instructis.—In 
Andibus altissimis Chilensibus. 
This curious plant is evidently allied to-the Jaborosa group 
of Solaneæ, but it has an aspect very different from the others, 
both in its general pubescence and more lurid hue, as wellas 
by its broad, duller, campanular flowers, with stamens quite 
free and insertedin the base of the corolla. The stem is fusiform, 
extending horizontally in the stony soil, from which radiate 
several half prostrate branching stems, whose axils are distinct 
although approximate; the leaves are sometimes alternate, 
sometimes subopposite; the petioleis fleshy, round below, 
flattened or caniculate above, with broad decurrent margins, 
and about 2 in.long ; the blade is about 2 or 21 in. long, and 
1} in. broad at the extreme points ; they are deeply and some- 
what pinnately laciniate, the segments being rather narrow, 
somewhat parallel and roundish, the margin being sometimes 
.  fhüre, with a cuspidate apex, but more generally sharply 
toothed with intervening sinuosities; they are somewhat erect, 
. Covered with long soft pubescence, the hairs being composed 
_ 9fseveral broad articulations; the peduncles are about half 
the length of the petioles, and round ; the calyx is divided into 
five rather acute segments, very pubescent outside, glabrous 
_ Within; the corolla is broadly campanulate, the tube being 
_ Slightly pubescent on both sides; the lobes are ovate, acute, 
_ terminated at the apex by a somewhat terete woolly spur, the 
_ Margins being whitish, membranaceous, the more central por- 
. fon as well as the tube being marked with numerous purplish 
. brown reticulations, and a few scattered hairs; the filaments 
_ *teslender, nearly the length of the tube of the corolla, quite 
; free to the base, whence they originate from a small adnate 
nng; they are.smooth and slightly pubescent at base, erect, 
and curving downward toward the apex; the anthers, which 
are thus inverted, consist of two nearly globular adnate lobes, 
divaricate at base, bursting longitudinally by lateral fissures ; 
^y are without any sensible connective, and are fixed dor- 
