THE FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 501 
erectis, lineari-acuminatis; corollæ limbo amplo campanu- 
lato; nucibus paucis, magnis, baccatis, plurilocularibus.— 
Chile ad Conceptionem. v. s. in herb. Hooker. (Bridges, 
n. 1325). 
This is apparently a low-growing suffruticose bande 
plant, distinguished by its numerous close fascicles of narrow 
linear leaves, which are about 4 in. long. and 1 a lin. wide, 
somewhat broader towards the apex, the margins being 
rolled back on the mid-rib, so as to assume a perfectly terete 
form, they are covered with dense short, glandular tomen- 
tum. The flowers are about the size and shape of those of 
Sorema paradoxa. The calyx is funnel-shaped, about 3 inch 
long. the acuminate lobes being about one third of its 
length, and somewhat curved outwards, as in A. prea, and 
A. rostrata. 
8.. Alona microphylla (n. sp.) :—fruticulosa, ramulis tortuo- 
sis nodosis ; foliis parvis, fasciculatis, confertis, spathulato- 
oblongis, carnosulis, viscidulo-pubescentibus ; floribus 
solitariis, mediocribus, calyce campanulato, ad medium 
-5-partito, lobis late triangularibus, pubescenti, pilis glan- 
dulosis, aliisque articulatis; corolla pubescenti, limbo amplo 
campanulato, staminibus styloque exsertis.—Chile ad 
Conceptionem. v. s. in herb. Hooker. (Bridges, n. 1330). 
This is another low growing suffruticose species, with very 
much the habit of some of the small-leaved Lyciums. The 
stem and lower portion of the branchlets are tortuous, bare, 
and knotty; the leaves are close, about 3 lin. long, 4 to 1 
lin. broad, spathulate, nerveless, fleshy, and covered with 
short, viscid, glandular hairs. The peduncles are ciliate, 
1 in. long; the tube of the calyx is 2 lines in length, as 
well as in diameter, having 5 equal, broad, triangular, erect 
lobes, 2 lin. long; the corolla is 1 in. long, broadly campanu- 
late, with 5 rounded lobes. 
Since the former part of these remarks upon the genus 
Sorema was printed, I have seen in a living state a cultivated - 
species that corresponds with the Nolana atr riplicifolia of 
