190 ON A NEW SPECIES OF BOLIVARIA. 



description of Prof. Kunth above referred to, from which it 

 evidently appears to belong to this genus, rather than to 

 Nierembergia. The branches are prostrate, about 1 foot long; 

 the leaves are somewhat thick and membranaceous, 6 to ,7 

 lines long, and \\ to 2\ lines broad ; the peduncles are 1 line 

 long, viscidly pubescent; the calyx has a short tube, with 

 obtuse, lanceolately spathulate, unequal, spreading segments : 

 the corolla, of a bluish colour, has a funnel-shaped tube as 

 long as the calyx, pubescent, its limb with 5 roundish lobes: 

 the stamens are unequal, included ; the ovarium is supported 

 by a small annular disc ; the style is filiform, slightly 

 bent, as long as the stamens; the stigma 2-lobed and papil- 

 lose : the capsule, enveloped by the persistent calyx, is 2 

 lines long, with 2 entire sub-membranaceous valves: the 

 seeds are minute, angular, reticulate, with a 2-lobed embryo 

 enclosed in copious albumen.* 



Steudel states that Nierembergia graveolens, of St. Hilaire, 

 which is the N. pubescens of Sprengel, is identical with this 

 species ; but their descriptions do not accord. 



Description of a New Species of Bolivaria, by George 

 Bentham, Esq. 



Tab. V. 



Bolivaria robusta-, glabra, ramulis brevibus erassis rigidis, 

 foliis paucis minimis oblongis integerrimis, calyce breviter 

 " 6'-dentato, corolla calyce quadruplo longiore 5-6-lobo. 

 j. In Patagonia, Middleton. 



* Since the above was in type, it has been kindly suggested to me 

 by Mr. Bentham, that this species is probably identical with the Callib™- 

 choa procumbens, LI. and Lex., the Salpiglossis sinuata, Hook. Arn. I am 

 glad to find what I hinted in regard to this plant (See note, p. 183), tb" 3 

 soon confirmed by so learned an authority : all the information I c° ol£l 

 glean on the subject, was derived from the short generic character, 

 published in Walp. Rep. 3.958, its specific details being omitted in the 

 Enumeration in p. 178 of that work. On stating my impression to Sir 

 W. Hooker, he kindly took much trouble to search for his California^ 

 specimens, but in vain, as unfortunately they had been misplaced in "is 



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