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and far more elevated portion of the Cordillera, near the sum- 
mit of the Cumbre; although exposed to the bleak drying 
winds prevalent in that great altitude, it is larger in its general 
proportions than the former species, and is remarkable for the 
great difference in the length of its bracts. The root is 
fusiform, and from its summit arise several stems, which are 
somewhat prostrate and ascending. The leaves have a blade 
about 3 in. long and 1 in. broad at the widest part, quite 
smooth, light green, opaque, and more coriaceous than fleshy 
in consistence; the petiole is about 3 in. long, fleshy, round 
beneath, flat above, with a somewhat broad decurrent ciliated 
margin ; the leaves are generally ternate, and the united bases 
of the foot-stalks give a knotty form to the axils, which are 
about 4 in. apart. The number of peduncles and bracts gene- 
rally correspond with that of the leaves. It may be doubted 
whether the slender leaflets seen in the axils should be consi- 
dered as bracts or stipules, neither of which organs are usually 
met with in the Solanaceous group of plants; but I have 
adopted the view of Sir Wm. Hooker, who considers them as 
bracts, which is justified by the circumstance of their being 
always seen rather within the line of the petioles; they are 
linear, slender at base, about 14 in. long, swelling at the ex- 
tremity into a spathulate blade, with a long cuspidate point. 
The peduncles are round, rather slender, about 1} in. long, 
somewhat erect, 1-flowered. The calyx is persistent, swelling 
about the torus, somewhat membranaceous above, and divided 
into 5 equal, long, tapering, erect segments, furnished with 
long articulate pubescence. The corolla is of a lurid cream- 
colour below the border, which is white, both externally and 
within, where it is covered with woolly tomentum; the tube 
is funnel-shaped, rather more than } in. long, the border 
being divided into 5 rather acute, expanding lobes, which are 
somewhat plicate at base; the anthers are almost sessile, and 
fixed by their base below the mouth of the corolla, they are 
deeply 2-lobed and laterally compressed, so that they stand 
out in a circular ring around the stigma, they are of a lurid 
