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(N. 521.) Cordillera of Chili, Cuming (N. 292.)— 8. flori- 
bus ceeruleis, foliis vix glandulosis—Gynopleura czru- 
lea, Presi, l. c.—Valleys in the Andes of Chili, Dr. Gil- 
lies; Cuming (N. 293.) Quillota, Bridges, 1832, (cum 
N. 521.)—y. floribus pallidis, foliis linearibus glandulis 
pedicellatis copiose ornatis.—M. coronata, Don in Edin. 
New Phil. Journ. .N. 23. p. 112.—Valparaiso, Cuming 
(N. 313.) —3. floribus pallidis, foliis oblongis glandulis 
pedicellatis saepissime ornatis.—M. paniculata, Don.— 
Valparaiso, Macrae.—A species so variable, that we 
have scarcely seen two specimens alike. Those from ` 
Dr. Gillies of the var. « agree best with the figure of 
Cavanilles (Ic. £. 316.), in which, however, the details 
. of the petals and germen are indifferently represented. 
‘The leaves are from 3- to 7-partite, the lateral lobes 
much smaller than the middle one, and in Cuming's N. 
292 these lobes are extremely small, while the middle 
one is deeply sinuate, and attenuated at the base; all 
the varieties, however, have this lobe more or less 
sinuate. The var. 3. has certainly a very different 
habit, but unless in the greater breadth of the foliage, 
we can find no character to separate it. Of the var. y. 
Mr. Don informs us, that it has lately flowered from 
Cuming's seeds, retaining all the habit of the wild speci- 
mens; this variety Mr. Don describes to have a ‘corona 
integerrima," which is not the case in our specimens: 
of it he also says that the styles are terminal; but he 
only examined the germen, and in that state the styles 
are terminal in all the species of the genus. Nor ought 
the contrary to be expected, for the situation of the - 
placentze shows that what are termed the valves of the 
capsule, are merely the segments of its apex, which, 
in the state of germen, is small, flat, or even depress- 
ed: when more mature, this apex becomes elevated, 
splitting into three teeth or segments, with the styles at 
their base and alternating with them ; the styles are then 
in appearance lateral, although not so, meri 
speaking, 
