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cente tres, parietales, lineares, divaricato-bilamellate, 
pluriovulatz, ovula tenuissima membranacea. Styli tres, 
breves, vix basi coadunati, erecti: stigmata capitata 
minute papillosa. Capsula globosa, calyce persistente 
inclusa, 1-locularis, in parte libera loculicide trivalvis, 
valvis stylo persistente terminatis. Semina plurima, pal- 
lida, ovalia, utrinque obtusa, punctata: albumen tenue, 
carnosum. Embryo rectus, centralis, albus.—Herba an- 
nua, glabra, pusilla, semipollicaris. Caulis erectus, dicho- 
tome ramosus. Rami divaricati. Folia alterna, spathu- 
lata, integerrima, carnosula, viz nervosa. Flores termi- 
nales, ratione plante magni, Chrysosplenii emulantes. — 
549. 
550, 
551. 
(1.) C. pusillum (Hook. et Arn.)—Quintero in Chili, 
Bridges, 1832, (N. 528.)—We place this curious little 
genus at the end of Sazifragee, not that we would affirm 
that it certainly belongs to that Order, but because there 1 
is no other with which it appears so much allied. With . 
some genera it agrees in the number of stamens, and 
with Chrysosplenium in many particulars, as in the one- 
celled many-seeded fruit, in the calyx, and in the num- 
ber of stamens, if we suppose the parts we have de- 
scribed as petals to be abortive stamens: but from all it 
2ppears to differ by the loculicidal, not septicidal dehis- 
cence of the capsule. This, and some other of the 
more novel plants described in the present number, will 
be soon figured in the continuation of this work.* 
(1.) Hydrocotyle pusilla, Rich.?— Buenos Ayres, Tweedie. 
—This only differs from Richard’s and DeCandolle’s 
description by the petioles and whole plant being per- 
fectly glabrous. 
(2.) Hydrocotyle modesta, Cham. et Schlecht,—Valpa- 
ees 
* We cannot conclude the Sazifragee without observing, that no species of 
the genus Saxifraga has, so far as we know, been yet found in Chili, or even in 
any part of the extratropical hemisphere. - 
