498 CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
Contributions to the Botany of Souru America. By Joun 
Miers, Ese., F.R.S. F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 371.) 
The stem is almost 4-angular; the leaves are nearly am- 
plexicaul at base, where they are fixed obliquely on the 
stem, the lower edge being decurrent; they taper gradually 
upwards, and are linearly acuminate, are about 12 in. long, 
and 3 lin. broad at base; the younger ones are pubescent, 
but they soon become glabrous; the peduncle is compressed, 
6-7 lin. in length, and together with the calyx is covered with 
long, soft pubescence; the calycine tube is turbinate, pen- 
tagonous, 4 lin. long, with five equal erect, triangular, acumi- 
nate lobes of equallength; the corolla is about the size of 
that of S. paradoxa, with a broad campanulate border of a 
blue colour. The nuts are scarcely as large as rape seeds, 
black, deeply foveolated with very sharp angles; on one 
receptacle I found 35 distinct nuts, all 1-celled. 
5. Sorema lanceolata (n. sp.) :—herbacea, prostrata, incano- 
pubescens; caule subangulato ; folis geminis lanceolatis 
semiamplexicaulibus, basi oblique adnatis, hinc. decurren- 
tibus; floribus in axillis solitariis, speciosis, ceeruleis.— ` 
Chile ad Coquimbo. v. s. in herb. Hooker, (Cuming, 
n. 856.) 
The whole plant is furnished with incanous pubescence; 
the younger leaves, peduncles and stems, are ciliated and 
covered with very thick articulate hairs; the leaves are 
somewhat spathulate, lanceolate, oblique at base, and decur- 
rent on the stem, as in the former species, they are 14 in. 
long, 4-6 lin. broad ; the peduncle is compressed, 14 in. long; 
the calyx is campanulate, 5-angled, 6 lin. long; the teeth being 
half that length, and lanceolate ; the corolla is 14 in. long, and 
much resembles that of S. paradoza. d 
6. Sorema longifolia. Alona longifolia Lindl. loc. cit :—her- 
bacea, prostrata; caule crasso ; foliis geminis, lineari- 
lanceolatis, subspathulatis, alato-petiolatis in caulem hinc - 
