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and somewhat thickened at the apex; the corolla is about 
6 lines long, with oblong reflected segments, the stamens 
being exserted, the filaments arising about the middle of the 
tube, from as many dense velvety tufts, above which they 
are glabrous, as is likewise the style; the ten ovaries are 
arranged in 2 series on a conical receptacle, the margin of 
the surrounding disc being erect and obsoletely lobed. 
3. Dolia leptophylla, (n. sp.) :—fruticulosa, tota pubescens, 
ramulis teneris fusco-cottoneis foliis fasciculatis, lineari- 
teretibus, incurvis; calyce parvo, lobis triangularibus, 
attenuatis: corolla cerulea, tubo inferne gracili, superne 
ampliato, campanulato, lobis parvis rotundatis; nucibus 
rotundatis, nigris, rugosis.—Peruvia. v. s. in herb. Hooker. 
Cuming, n. 956. 
The above specimen is small, apparently a portion of an 
erect low-growing shrubby plant. The leaves are barely 
4 an inch long and half a line broad, covered with dense 
grey tomentum : the peduncle is scarcely 2 lines long; the 
calyx is small, only 14 to 2 lines in length, with triangular 
erect teeth ; the corolla, about 8 lines long, is very slender at 
base, spreading above in a bell-shaped tube, with a 5-lobed 
margin. The seeds are black, shining, rounded, covered witb 
rugous prominences: on one receptacle I observed 1 of the 
nuts to be 6-celled, 1-4-celled, 1-3-celled, 2-1-celled, in 
all 5 nuts with 15 cells. : 
4. Dolia lava (n. sp.)—fruticulosa, tomentosa, ramulis graci- 
libus laxis ; foliis sparsis, lineari-spathulatis, acutis, glan- 
duloso-pubescentibus ; floribus axillaribus, parvis. Canta? 
Peruvie.—v. s. in herb. Hooker. £^ 
This specimen, or rather fragment of one, was sent from 
Peru by Mathews, where he states it to bave been obtained 
out of a collection made by Ruiz and Pavon, then existing in 
Lima. It has quite the habit of the species above described, 
but the axils are nearly an inch apart, the leaves in pairs, — 
being 4 in. long, and barely a line in width, they are tomen- — 
tous and fleshy ; the flowers are solitary in each axil, the 
peduncle is only 1 line, and the calyx, deeply cleft into 5 — 
