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lected ou the rocks south of San Ambrosio, also want flowers and fruit : they consist of 

 portions of the brandies, about half an inch thick in the dry state, with three or four 

 leaves at the end. We have little doubt that it belongs to the Cichoriaceae, and it is 

 most likely a congener of the Juan Fernandez plants of this suborder. 



Dr Coppinger also collected a young plant of what may be the same or a closely 

 allied species. It is barely six inches high, with leaves about two inches long. 



BORAGINE/E. 



Heliotropium stylosum, Philippi. 



Heliotropium stijlosum, Philippi in Bot. Zeit, 1870, p. 500. 



San Ambrosio. — Endemic — Simpson. 



Described as a very much branched shrub with crowded linear leaves and crowded 

 flowers ; but Philippi was unable to determine whether it was a true Heliotropium or 

 Heliophytwm. He compares it with Heliophjtum pycnophyllum, Philippi, and Helio- 

 phytum floridum, DC, Chilian species, with which it agrees in habit, differing in floral 

 characters. 



CHENOPODIACE/E. 



Atriplex? foliolosum, Philippi. 



Atriplex? foliolosum, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1870, p. 500. 



San Ambrosio. — Endemic — Simpson. 



A glabrous shrubby species, having crowded, minute, sessile leaves, all bearing gemmoe 

 of two to three leaves in their axils. Flowers and fruit unknown. 



UETICACE^E. 



Parietaria feliciana, Philippi. 



Parietaria feliciana, Philippi in But. Zeit., 1S70, p. 501. 

 San Felix. — Endemic. Simpson. 



Described apparently as an annual, five inches high, with roundish leaves and herma- 

 phrodite tetrandrous flowers, solitary in a threedeaved involucre. Nothing is said about 

 its affinities. 



