216 Dr. J. D. Hooker's Enumeration of the Plants 



Lor ANTHER. 



IJb. ViscuM Henslovii, /TooA:.^/. ; foliosum, ramis dichotomis teretibus, foliis 

 breviter petioiatis obliqufe ovato-lanceolatis subacutis basi subattenuatis 

 5-nerviis opacis, spicis 6-8-articulatis folio \ brevioribus : axillaribus ge- 

 minis : terminalibus ternis, vaginulis bifidis acutis, floribus hexastichis. 



Hab. Charles Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Rami crassitie pennae anserinae, teretes, hie illic articulati, internodiis 1-2-uncialibus ; arti- 

 culis vaginatis, ad axillas foliosis. Folia tripoUicaria, valde coriacea, 1 ^ unc. lata, venis 

 primariis 5 parallelis, pagina inferiore reticulatim venosa ; petiolo 1-1 j unc. longo, 

 crassiusculo. Spicae ad axillas foliorum 2-4, saepe terminales, erectae vel adscendentes, 

 lj-2 unc. longae, articulis supremis steriUbus. Baccae parvae, sub 1 lin, diametro, 

 globosae, semi-immersae. 



Very near the Viscum Perrottetii of Guiana, judging by the description in 

 DeCandolle's 'Prodromus'; the leaves are however smaller, the spikes with 

 more articulations, and the principal nerves of the leaf can hardly be con- 

 sidered as branched. In the specimens of this and the following species the 

 branches are di- or rarely trichotomous, and the leaves only in the axils of the 

 branches, never at the other articulations of the stem. The flowers appear 

 confined to the axils, and do not spring, as in some species, from other parts 

 of the plant. 



176. ViscuM Galapageium, Hooh.Jil.; foliosum, ramis teretibus lignosis dicho- 

 tomy divisis, foliis breviter petioiatis late obovatis apice rotundatis vald^ 

 coriaceis aveniis, spicis axillaribus solitariis vel ad apices ramulorum ternis 

 articulatis cylindraceis, floribus subhexastichis, ovariis semi-imraersis. 



Hab. Chatham Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Priori affine, sed foliorum aveniorum forma distinctum. Rami crassitie pennae anserinae, 

 internodiis 3-uncialibus. Folia 2 unc. longa, subsessilia v. petiolo brevi instructa. 

 Spicae I unciales multiarticulatae, ad articulos vaginatae ; vaginis breviter bifidis. 



RuBfACE^. 



177- RuBiA (sp.) ? 



Hab. Charles Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Apparently an unnamed Peruvian species ; but the specimens from the 



