583. 
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Pedunculi terminales capitula globosa vel hemispherica 
solitaria gerentes ! 
(12.) Eryngium bupleuroides (Hook. et Arn.); arbores- 
cens, foliis planis serratis, involucri foliolis capitulo 
brevioribus.—Lessonia bupleuroides, Bert. mst.—Les- 
sonia, Bert. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. v. 2l. p. 348.— 
Woody, stony, elevated situations at El Portezuelo, 
- Juan Fernandez, Mrs. Maria Graham; Bertero, N. 
1471.— This and the next are very singular and beau- 
tiful plants, with the flowers, indeed, of an Eryngium, 
but with a totally different habit, for they constitute 
small trees, 5 to 7 feet in height, with forked, terete 
branches. In the present species, the branches are 
clothed with a brown shining bark; the leaves are 3 to 4 
inches long, lanceolate, broader upwards, serrated, be- 
tween coriaceous and membranaceous, quite glabrous, 
marked all over with many branched, but nearly parallel 
nerves, the margin slightly incrassated, the sessile 
base almost entirely amplexicaul. Peduncles solitary, 
terminal, scarcely so long as the leaves, bearing à 
solitary, terminal, hemispherical head of very dense 
flowers. Involucre of several spreading lanceolato- 
subulate striated entire leaves, much shorter than the 
capitulum. Paleæ scariose, not rigid, shorter than the 
flowers, Germens muricated, crowned with five evi- 
dent, linear-lanceolate, erect teeth. Stamens with 
long filaments. Anthers ovato-oblong. Petals erect, with 
an inflexed point. Styles exceedingly long and patent. 
584. (13.) Eryngium sarcophyllum (Hook. et Arn.); arbores- 
cens, foliis cylindraceis carnosis, involucro omnino pullo. 
—Massa Fuera, near J uan Fernandez, Cuming (N. 1355.) 
—Although so very different in the substance of its. 
leaves, this is evidently of the same genus as the last, 
having equally woody and dischotomous stems, but these 
are more rugged with the membranaceous bases of the 
fallen leaves. The peduncles are thick and stout, 
longer than the leaves, one to five at the extremity of 
