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the blade being nearly 10 lines long, and 8 lines broad: the 
cauline leaves are only half that size, in unequal pairs, the 
outer one being sessile, and decurrent on the stem as in the 
preceding species, the younger leaves, peduncle, and calyx 
are pubescent, but the older leaves and stem are glabrous : 
the calyx is 5-angular, 5 lines long, divided half way down 
into 5 triangular erect teeth: the corolla resembles that of 
S. paradoxa: the nuts are about 16, with sharp angles, each 
1-celled. 
3. Sorema acuminata (n. sp.) :—fruticulosa, prostrata ; 
caulibus ramosis, angulatis ; foliis geminis, pubescentibus, 
lanceolatis, lineari-acuminatis, oblique sessilibus, margine 
exteriori decurrenti: floribus axillaribus, solitariis, coeruleis ; 
nuculis distinctis 35, parvis, foveolatis.—Chile ad Concep- 
cionem : (v. s. in Herb. Hooker, n. 1322.) 
The stem is almost 4-angular; the leaves are nearly am- 
plexicaul at base, where they are fixed obliquely on the 
stem, the lower edge being decurrent ; they taper gradually 
upwards, and are linearly acuminate, are about 14 in. long, 
and 3 lin. broad at base; the younger ones are pubescent, 
but they soon become glabrous; the peduncle is compressed, 
6-7 lin. in length, and together with the calyxis covered with 
long, soft pubescence; the calycine tube is turbinate, pen- 
tagonous, 4 lin. long, with five equal erect, triangular, acumi- 
nate lobes of equal length; the corolla is about the size of 
that of S. paradowa, with a broad campanulate border of a 
blue colour. The nuts are scarcely as large as rape seeds, 
black, deeply foveolated with very sharp angles; on one 
receptacle I found 35 distinct nuts, all 1-celled. 
4. Sorema lanceolata (n. sp.) :—herbacea, prostrata, incano- 
pubescens ; caule subangulato ; foliis geminis lanceolatis 
semiamplexicaulibus, basi oblique adnatis, hinc decurren- 
tibus; floribus in axillis solitariis, speciosis, ceruleis.— 
Chile ad Coquimbo. v. s. in herb. Hooker, (Cuming, 
n. 856.) 
The whole plant is furnished with incanous pubescence ; 
the younger leaves, peduncles and stems, are ciliated and 
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