568 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
cula teres cotyledones longitudine zquans. Plumula incon- 
spicua. 
Bougueria genus, medium inter Plantaginem e£ Littorel- 
lam, priori habitu accedit, capsule structura ad posteriorem 
ver git. 
Hoc genus Andicolum dicavi memoria illustr. Bouguer, qui 
Condamineo comitante, excelsorum Peruvie montium altitu- 
dinem mensus est. 
BovGUERIA NUBICOLA. 
B. foliis linearibus, pedunculis folio brevioribus, bracteisque 
glabris, calyce dense piloso. (Tab. XIX.) 
Crescit in Bolivia inter saxorum porphyreticorum fissuras 
in montibus nivosis sub nomine las lagunas designatis, 
urbem Potosi alte superantibus, inde circa 4,888 metr. alt. 
supra Oceanum. 
Flores fructumque perfecerat Martio (b. specim. 6 sicca in 
Herb. Mus. Paris. a cl. Alc. d'Orbigny relata.) 
Herba bipollicaris, perennis, radice crassa, cespitosa, exsic- 
cata nigrescens; habitu Plantaginis nubigene, Kth. Folia 
linearia, integerrima, carnosula, glabrata, juniora albo-pilosa. 
Pedunculi axillares, folis breviores. Flores spicato-capi- 
tati. Bractee late membranacee fere ut in Pl. montana, 
Lamk. Calyx dense pilosus. Flores 17-20, quorum 3 her- 
maphroditis alis fcemineis absque ordine intermixtos in 
duabus spicis observavi.* 
Tas. XIX. Bougueria nubicola. Dcne.— Fi ig. 1. Bractea ; 
f. 2. flower; f. 3. anther; f. 4. corolla; f. 5.fruit; f. 6. the 
same laid open and showing the seed; f. 7. the fruit cut 
through transversely ; f. 8. vertical section of a seed; f. 9- 
embryo Pp He in 
* 'The ibis: generic and specific character and description Mp a 
the Annales des Sciences Nat. 2nd. ser. v. 5, p. 132. : 
