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bryo intra albumen carnosum fere rectus, cotyledonibus 

 oblongis, compressis, radicula infera, tereti, vix latioribus, 

 et duplo brevioribus. — Fruticuli Austro-Americani, viscosi, 

 vel resinosi ; foliis alternis, sparsis, vel imbricatis ; pedun- 

 culis, extra-axillaribus, vel terminalibus, solitariis, unifloris. 



1. Fabiana imbricata, R. et P. Flor. Per. 2. 12, tab. 122 c. 

 Hooker, Icon. PI. tab. 340. Lind. Bot. Reg. n. s. 12. tab. 59. 

 —Chile in paludosis maritimis, vernacule Pichi. v. v. 



2. Fabiana viscosa, Hook, et Arn. loc. cit. 36. — Chile ad 

 Barasca, vernacule Pichinilla. 



3. Fabiana thymifolia, St. Hil. Mem. Mus. 12, 317, tab. 9. 

 PI. Remarq. Bres. 220, tab. 20.— Rio Grande do Sul, Bra- 

 zilise. 



4. Fabiana denudata (n. sp.) — fruticosa, resinoso-glutinosa, 

 virgato-ramulosa, ramulis flexuosis angulatis fere aphyllis : 

 foliis valde deciduis, alternis, minimis, lineari-spathulatis, 

 obtusis, carnosis : floribus terminalibus, solitariis, bractea- 

 tis, breviter pedunculatis, erectis. — In Andibus Mendocinis 

 (Paramillo). v. v. 



This is a dry, arid-looking shrub, that I found growing on 

 the Paramillo of Mendoza, in January, 1825; it is about 3 

 °r 4 feet high, almost leafless, with numerous, erect, virgate, 

 very flexuose branchlets, which are angular, resinous, and 

 somewhat glutinous, with internodes about |in. apart; the 

 leaves are extremely deciduous, very minute, linear, scarcely 

 m ore than a line in length, and extremely narrow. The 

 flowers are smaller than those of F. imbricata, solitary, 

 erect and terminal, upon the younger branchlets. The 

 ca lyx is tubular, 3 lines long, with 5 erect linear teeth 

 one third of its length; the corolla is tubular, slender, 

 a Httle swollen at base, rather funnel-shaped in the 

 niouth, 9 li nes long, of a yellowish-white colour, quite 

 glabrous, with a 5-lobed border, the segments being short, 

 rounded, and reflected. The filaments are slender, arising 

 from the base of the corolla, to which they adhere for a short 

 ""stance, being somewhat dilated at base, they are nearly the 

 en gth of the tube, 3 being somewhat shorter, they are sud- 



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