SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 25 



I 



mulis junioribus brevibus divaricatis^ vel deflexis, abortu aplce 

 ssepe spinescentibus ; foliis subsessilibus parvulis, subfascicu- 

 latis, spathulato-oblongis^ carnosis, superne canaliculatis, sub- 

 tus convexis, utrinque glanduloso-pubescentibus, imo callo 

 tumido persistente suffultis^ callibus agglomeratis et axillis 

 demum nudis hiac nodosis ; floribus breviter pedunculatis. 

 ChilCj prov^ Coquimbo, v. s. in herb, HooJc. (Bridges, no. 1330), 

 in herb. Lindl. (Bridges, no. 1331*). 



This appears to be a low busby stunted shrub^ with close, 

 short, flexuose, knotty branchlets, frequently spinescent at the 

 apex, or often reduced to a short spine : the older branches are 

 generally quite bare of leaves, but the younger ones are closely 

 invested with minute fleshy fasciculate semiterete leaves, scarcely 

 more than 1 or 2 lines in length, and barely half a line in thick- 

 ness j these soon fall oflF, leaving the axils bare, the sterile appear- 

 ance of which is increased by the knotty accretions formed by 

 the persistent tumid bases of the fasciculate leaves \ the peduncle 

 is 2 lines in length ; the calyx, 3 lines long, is somewhat cam- 

 panular, being 2 lines broad, cleft full one-third of its length into 

 five erect equal teeth : the corolla seldom exceeds 6 or 8 hues in 



swells above and 



lyx 



with 



border consisting of five obtusely triangular equal lobes; the 

 stamens are inserted in the contracted portion of the tube, where 

 they are very hairy, above they are quite smooth, slender, erect, 

 and extend 2 lines beyond the mouth of the tube ; the style is 

 exserted to the same length f- 



2. Phrodus Bridgesii (n. sp.) ;— fruticosus, ramuhs elongatis, 

 teneris, subadscendentibus; foliis fasciculatis, spathulato-lmea- 

 ribus, subcarnosis, superne canaliculatis, subtus convexis, utrm- 

 que viscoso-pubescentibus ; corolla calyce 3-plo longiore ; sta- 



* There is evidently a confusion here in the numbers, which is not un- 

 frequent in many of Bridges's Chile plants, in consequence of two or more 

 specimens having been distributed on the same sheet without attached labels. 

 Owing to this same cause, I have described his no. 1331 asthe/)o/2a vermi- 

 culata',\i should have been no. 1330, these numbers havmg been respec- 

 tively interchanged. Under no. 1332 two very different plants have been 

 distributed; in Dr. Lindley's herbarium that number corresponds with bis 

 Alona baccata, and in Sir Wm. Hooker's herbarium the same number refers 

 to a very distinct plant, which I have correctly described under the name ot 

 Sorema acuminata. I may here also observe, that there exists another error 

 connected with some of Bridges's plants formerly described by me, inasfar 

 as regards their locality : thus Sorema acuminata (Lond. Journ. Bot iv. ^/O), 

 Sorema linearis (id. 499), Alona ericifoUa (id. 501), and Doha clavata {id. 

 508), are all from the neighbourhood of Coquimbo, and not from toncepcion, 

 as I found inscribed in mistake on the specimens referred to. 



t This plant with generic details is figured in plate 42 A. 



VOL. II. ^ 



