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28 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
raliter valde compress, incurve, apice acuminate, longitu- 
dinaliter dehiscentes, basi affixee. Ovarium 2-loculare, pla- 
centis dissepimento adnatis, multi-ovulatis. Stylus simplex, 
inclusus. Stigma magnum, crassum, stylo utrinque adna- 
tum, acutum, lanceolato-obcordiforme. Bacca calyce suf- 
fulta, 2-locularis. Semina plurima reniformia. Eméryo 
intra albumen carnosum filiformis, annularis. 
Herb Andicole, inferne radicantes, prostrate, vel subadscen- 
dentes ; foliis petiolatis, subternis, lyratis, vel pinnatifido- 
laciniatis, denticulatis ; pedunculis extra-axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, 1-floris, bracteatis. 
1. Dorystigma caulescens. Jaborosa caulescens, Hook. Bot. 
Misc. loc. cit.;—caulibus plurimis; foliis suboppositis vel 
ternis, lyrato-pinnatifidis, spinuloso-dentatis, petiolatis; 
floribus 3-4 in quaque axilla; pedunculis brevibus ; bracteis 
parvis, subulatis——In Andibus Chilensium. 
Sir William Hooker’s above mentioned figure affords 
so admirable a representation of this plant, and is accom- 
panied by so good a description, that it is needless to 
make any further remark, than that the bracts are scarcely 
half an inch long, very slender, and subulately acuminate. 
Excepting in their relative size, there is little difference in the 
flower of this'and the following species; the mouth and seg- 
ments of the corolla are densely lined within with tomentum, 
the hairs being articulated ; the anthers have a distinct mucro- 
nate apex, and the filaments are somewhat longer.* 
2. Dorystigma squarrosum, (n. sp.) ; Jaborosa decurrens (Nob. 
Trav. Chile, 2, 531) ;—foliis subternis, longe petiolatis, irre- 
gulariter pinnatifido-laciniatis, laciniis eroso-denticulatis, 
petiolo alato, pedunculo duplo longiori; bracteis longissi- 
mis, lineari-spathulatis, pedunculo fere eequalibus.—In An- 
dibus Chilensium, altitudine 12,000 ped. 
This plant was found by me in January, 1825, in another 
= A representation of this plant, with ample sectional details, is given in 
» VE. A. 
