50 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
pointing towards the hilum, or aperture of the cell: the 
cotyledons, which together are somewhat more slender than 
the radicle, are about the same length.* : 
var. 8. atriplicifolia :—procumbens, subpubescens 5 foliis 
spathulatis, radicalibus majoribus, forma Atriplicis hor- 
tensis; calyce campanulato, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis ; 
corolle tubo intus flavo, fauce albo, limbo amplo, ceruleo. 
Sorema atriplicifolia Lindl. Nolana atriplicifolia D. Don. 
Sweet, Fl. Gard. n. ser. tab. 305:—Peruvia? an potius 
Chile? 
The figure given in the work above cited, exhibits the 
cauline leaves to be about 12 in. long, and 1 in. broad, they 
are wavy, fleshy, broadly oblong, obtuse, subulate at base, 
ona very broad decurrent petiole, one of the margins of 
which is continuous along the angle of the stem. This variety 
is known only from cultivated specimens, raised from seeds 
said to have been obtained from Peru, and [ have not been 
able to learn of its existence in any herbarium; but I have 
just seen in a living state a cultivated species that corres- 
ponds with the figure last quoted, from which it appears to 
me only a more luxuriant form of Sorema paradoxa. I 
therefore, consider them, to be identical, and the stated 
place of origin of the cuitivated variety, (Peru), to have been 
mistaken for that of Chile. 
2. Sorema litoralis (n. sp.)—herbacea, prostrata; radice fusi- 
formi, ramulis plurimis, e collo radiatis 3 foliis radicalibus 
majoribus, longe petiolatis, cordato-ovatis, obtusis, cau- 
linis geminis, inequalibus, obovatis, obtusis, uno sessili, 
altero subspathulato, late petiolato, decurrenti: floribus 
solitariis, corolla ampla, cerulea.—Chile, Valparaiso, v. 
8, in herb. meo (Mathews i) in herb. Hooker, ( Cuming. n. 627, 
Bridges n. 327.) 
This plant grows sparingly on a sandy beach, within reach 
of the spray of the sea: its tap root descends to a depth of 6 
or 8 inches: its branches, springing from the neck, spread 
along the sand in all directions; the radical leaves have a 
narrow petiole, about an inch long, and barely a line broad, 
* A figure of this Species is given in Phare 10. 
