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



ramulis ad axillas constrictis, foliis oppositis brevi-petiolatis anguste 

 oblongo-lanceolatls subacutis planis integemmis glaberrimis, spicis ter- 

 minalibus sessilibus ovatis densifloris. 

 Hab. Chatham Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 



SufFrutex pedalis. Rami crassiusculi, inferiores lignosi, superiores medio incrassati, sub- 

 articulati, nodosi, internodiis 2-uncialibus. Folia \^-2 unc. longa, sub 1^ lata, vald^ 

 coriacea, patentia, supra medio obscure sulcata, infra nervo medio crasso lateralibus 

 evanidis. Spicae ut in B. nudicaule. 



Very similar to the last, though with leaves and branches perfectly glabrous 

 and more or less glaucous ; the former also are more numerous, broader, 

 smooth and glaucous, especially underneath, and their margins not at all 

 recurved. The only flowers are loose on the sheets with the specimens. 



94. B. FiLiFOLiA, Hook.Jil.; caule basi lignoso ramoso, ramis erectis dicho- 



tomis glaberrimis, ramulis ultimis junioribus parc^ pubescentibus, foliis 

 elongatis august^ filiformibus glaberrimis carnosis ?, spicis terminalibus 

 axillaribusque sessilibus ter-quaternis cylindraceis densifloris, floribus 

 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis extiis pubescentibus. 

 Hab. James Island, Dr. Scouler. 



Folia 1-2-uncialia, sub ^ lin. lata, siccitate compressa. Perianthii segmenta subcuspidata. 



Readily distinguishable from B. glauca by its leaves, and from B. nudicaulis 

 by the very different shape of the flowers. 



95. Frcelichia au Die AVhis, Hook. JiL; erecta, virgata, ramis elongatis nudis 



teretibus striatis glaberrimis 3-4-chotomfe ramosis aphyllis, spicis fructi- 

 feris terminalibus brev^ pedicellatis, bracteis late ovatis concavis scariosis, 

 perianthio villoso-barbato ampullaceo ore 5-fido lat^ bialato crasso crus- 

 taceo utriculum parvum includente: — Bucholtzice wMC?/ca?</'«* exemplar 

 fructiferum ? 

 Hab. Charles Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Under Bucholtzia nudicaulis are given the reasons for retaining this in a 

 separate genus. The more remarkable points of difference between the pre- 

 sent plant, of which I have only seen ripe fruit, and that where the spikes are 

 only in flower, consist in the absence of foliage and in there being no hairs on 



