509 CONTRIBUTIONS TO - 
Sweet, loc. cit., which appears to me only a more luxuriant 
form of Sorema paradoxa: Y consider, therefore, the two 
species to be identical, and the stated place of the origin of 
the former (Peru), to have been mistaken for that of Chile. 
Dora, Lindl. 
This genus was proposed by Prof. Lindley for a plant 
brought by Mr. Cuming from Chile, and which I obtained 
many years ago from Dr. Miller, of H.M.S. Dublin, who 
collected it in Concepcion. Although unquestionably be- 
longing to Nolanee, it has more the habit and inflorescence 
of a Fabiana, from the flower of which it is scarcely distin- 
guishable. The following is offered as a more extended 
generic character than that given by its distinguished 
author. 
Doutta Lindl.—Calyz persistens, tubulosus, limbo 5-partito, 
lobis lineari-acuminatis, carnosulis, obtusiusculis. Corolla 
hypogyna, fere hypocrateriformis, tubo ore ampliato, limbo 
ad basin 5-fisso, lobis brevibus rotundatis apice vix mucro- 
nulatis. Stamina 5, inequalia, inclusa, rarius exserta ; 
filamenta erecta, medio corolle inserta, filiformia; anthere 
basifixæ, 2-lobæ, lobis rotundatis, longitudinaliter dehis- 
centibus. Discus hypogynus, carnosus, substipatus, mar- 
gine 5-lobo libero gynobasin cingens. Ovaria 8-10, coadu- 
nata, l-ovulata. Stylus centralis, filiformis. Stigma clava- 
tum. Drupe totidem, carnosæ, demum siccæ, vernicose ; 
nuv ovalis, 1-6-locularis, basi operculo clausa. Semen ut 
in congeneribus. 
Frutieuli Chilenses, erecti, ramosissimi; ramulis brevibus 
flexuosis, interdum  cottoneo-floccosis ; foliis Sasciculatis, 
minimis, spathulatis, carnosulis, pilosis; foribus parvis, 
solitariis, terminalibus, v. axillaribus. 
1. Dolia vermiculata Lindl. :—ramis niveo-cottoneis ; foliis 
brevissimis, spathulatis, rotundatis, crassis; calycis dentibus 
carnosis, sub-recurvis, tubo corollæ multo brevioribus.— 
Chile ad Conceptionem. (Cuming, n. 893, Bridges, n. 1336. 
