244? Mr D. Don on the Characters and Affinities, x§t. 



laresia emarginata to be a shrub about two yards high, and a 

 native of Pillao in Peru ; and the descriptions of the plant in 

 their Prodromus and Systema shew it to belong to a very dif- 

 ferent genus from the one subsequently adopted by them in 

 the third volume of their Flora. The specimens and drawing 

 of the former were doubtless lost in the shipwreck of the San 

 Pedro de Alcantara. Among a small collection from South 

 America, I have seen specimens of a plant, which may even- 

 tually prove to be a congener of Villaresia emarginata. 



MALESHERBIA. 



I have to add the following description of another new spe- 

 cies to this interesting genus, for samples of which I am in- 

 debted to my enterprising friend Mr BoUaert, who collected 

 them in Southern Peru. The flowers of this new species are pink, 

 and the root is apparently annual. It is readily distinguished 

 from all those hitherto described by its almost pinnate leaves. 



7. M. tenuifoUa, foliis subpinnatis ; segraentis linearibus, perianthiis tu- 

 bulosis, coronE inciso-lobata. 



Hab. In Peruviae provincia australiori Tarapacensi ad Huataconda. 

 D. BoUaert. Floret Februario. V^llgb Agi de Zorra, i. e. Cap- 

 sicum Alopecis. (V. s. sp. in Herb. Lamb.) 

 Herha annua, pube subtilissima, prsesertim in statu juvenili canescens. Caiu 

 tes erecti, ramosi, tereies, palmares, vix pennam corvinam crassilie ad- 

 sequantes. Ramuli axillares, uniflori, subfastigiati. Folia alterna, pro- 

 f unde pinnatifida, fere omnino pinnata, uncialia : segmentis lineari-angus- 

 tissimis, obtusis, integerrimis, canaliculatis. Pedunculi brevissimi, apice 

 g^iiculati. Perianthium tubulosum, sesquiunciale, rubicundum, minute 

 puberulum : tubus 10-nervius : limbo lO-partito : segmentis 5 exterioribus 

 elliptico-oblongis, obtuse mucronulatis, 5.nerviis (nervis ramosis, alter- 

 nis 2 subsimplicibus, vix ultra medium manifestis) ; 5 interioribus peta- 

 loideis, ovalibus, obtusis, trinerviis (nervis ramosis), basi parum angus- 

 tatis. Corona simplex, tenuissime membranacea, limbo brevior, margine 

 inciso-lobata, eroseque dentata. Stamina 5 : JUamenta compressa, glabra ; 

 anthercB incumbentes, lineari-oblongse, biloculares : loculis parallelis, lon- 

 gitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Styli 3, laterales, longissimi, filiformes 

 glabri, arcuato-patentes. Stigmata simplicia, obLusa. Capsula trigona,, 

 poUicaris : valvis lanceolatis, acutis, ultra limbum perianthii prominulis^ 

 Semina plura, ovoldea, gilva, sulcis plurimis notata. 



