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covered with very thick articulate hairs; the leaves are 
somewhat spathulate, lanceolate, oblique at base, and decur- 
rent on the stem, as in the former species, they are 1¥ in. 
long, 4-6 lin. broad ; the peduncle is compressed, 13 in. long. 
the calyx is campanulate, 5-angled, 6 lin. long; the teeth being 
half that length, and lanceolate ; the corolla is 13 in. long, and 
much resembles that of S. paradoxa. . 
5. Sorema longifolia. Alona longifolia Lindl. loc. cit :—her- 
bacea, prostrata; caule crasso; foliis geminis, lineari- 
lanceolatis, subspathulatis, alato-petiolatis in caulem hinc 
decurrentibus, parce et molliter pubescentibus ; floribus 
speciosis solitariis, axillaribus, ceruleis.—Chile ad Co- 
quimbo. v. s. in herb. Hooker, (Cuming. n. 887). 
This is evidently a succulent prostrate plant, with a fleshy 
stem 3 lin. in diameter, and with axils 1 in. apart ; the leaves 
are 3 in. long, } in. broad, spathulate and decurrent ; the 
pedicel is 14 in. long; the calyx is altogether 9 lin. long, the 
linear segments measuring 5 lin.; the corolla is 13 in. long, 
with a broad campanular blue border as in S. paradoxa. 
Doctor Lindley mentions having found in one receptacle 7 
drupes, viz: 1-4-celled, and 6-1-celled, in all ten cells: in 
the one I examined I found 4 nuts, each 6-celled, 1-3-celled, 
and 8-1-celled, in all 13 nuts, with 35 cells; it is worthy of 
remark that all the seeds do not produce a perfect embryo. 
6. Sorema linearis (n. sp.) ‘—herbacea, glanduloso-pilosa, 
demum subglabra; ramulis angulatis ; foliis linearibus, 
obtusis, hine decurrentibus ; floribus solitariis, axillaribus. 
—Chile ad Conceptionem. v. s. in herb, Hooker. (Bridges, 
n. 1323). 
This is probably a procumbent plant; the younger leaves 
are covered with dense glandular tomentum 3 they are decur- 
rent on the stem as in the preceding species, 11 in, long, 
2-24 lin. broad ; the peduncle is 3 to 3 in. long; the calyx is 
short, 5-angular, with lanceolate segments, altogether 5 lin. 
long, and covered with soft pubescence ; the corolla is of the 
same shape, but smaller than that of S. paradoxa, and in the 
dried state is of a yellow colour. In one case, I found 2 of 
