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sime inclusa, insequilonga, circa stylum conniventia; an- 

 theris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, stigmate circumplexis. 

 Ovarium breviter stipitaturn, 2-loculare, placentis dissepi- 

 inento adnatis, rnultiovulatis, cyatho (corollee reliquo) 

 deraum circumdatum. Stylus simplex. Stigma sub- 

 laterale, oblunato-bilamellatum, laraellis reflexis. Capsula 

 calyce persistente tecta, 2-locularis, septicide 2-valvis, 

 valvis introflexis deraum 2-partitis, dissepimento placen- 

 tari libero. Semina plurima, minima, ovata, facie interna 

 angulata, hilo ventrali. Embryo intra albumen carnosum 

 fere rectus, cotyledonibus oblongis, compressis, radicula 

 , infera tereti vix latioribus, et longitudine aequantibus.— 

 Herbee Austro- Americana procumbentes vel radicantes, vtx 

 suffruticulosce, foliis alternis solitariis v. geminis integerri' 

 mis, floribus extra-axillaribus vel oppositifoliis, solitariis, 

 subsessilibus, albis vel violascentibus. 



1. Nierembergia repens, R. et P. Fl. Per. 2, 13, tab. 123 c— 

 Caule basi repente, ramulis erectis filiformibus ; foliis sub- 

 fasciculatis, oblongis, pilosulis ; floribus subsessilibus, ca- 

 lyce curvato, tubuloso, lobis obtusiusculis. — Chile ad Con- 

 ceptionem. — v. s. in Herb. Hook. {Cuming, n. 135.) 



The leaves in the specimens I have seen are ovate, about 

 5 lines long, 3 lines broad, on a short petiole of 2 lines, they 

 are thinly covered with short pubescence ; the calyx is about 

 3 lines long, also pubescent ; the corolla is white, with a long 

 slender tube, about an inch in length, and a broad campanu- 

 late border, nearly 9 lines diameter, divided into 5 rather 

 short, rounded lobes, each of which is marked with 3 purple 

 longitudinal lines, the throat being of a yellowish colour. 



2. Nierembergia spathulata, H. B. K. nov. gen. sp. 3, 8.-- 

 Caule lignoso repente, fibrillis tuberoso-nodosis ; ramulis 

 erectis filiformibus puberulis ; foliis solitariis vel geminis 

 elliptico-spathulatis, longe petiolatis, glabris margine cilio- 

 latis, junioribus lanuginoso-pubescentibus; calyce subsessili 

 curvato, tubuloso, pulverulento-tomentoso, laciniis obtusis. 

 — Nova Granada, ad Santa Fe de Bogota et Loxam ; altit- 

 6-8000 ped. v. s. in Herb. Hook. (Bogota, Goudot.) 



