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all become referrible to Nolana as above suggested ; but in 
the mean time it is not unfair to presume, from the indica- 
tions alluded to, that some good generic differences may yet 
be discovered, when the plants have been more carefully 
examined. 
7. Alona ericifolia (n. sp.) :—fruticulosa, glanduloso-pube- 
scens, ramulis sub-dichotomis; foliis fasciculatis confertis 
linearibus, margine revolutis et tunc teretibus 3 floribus 
speciosis ceruleis ; calyce tomentoso, tubo 5-gono, lobis 
erectis, lineari-acuminatis; corolle limbo amplo campanu- 
lato; nucibus paucis, magnis, baccatis, plurilocularibus.— 
Chile ad Conceptionem. v. s. in herb. Hooker. (Bridges, 
n. 1325). 
This is apparently a low-growing suffruticose branching 
plant, distinguished by its numerous close fascicles of narrow 
linear leaves, which are about 2 in. long. and 2 a lin. wide, . 
somewhat broader towards the apex, the margins being 
rolled back on the mid-rib, so as to assume a perfectly terete 
form, they are covered with dense short, glandular tomen- 
tum. The flowers are about the size and shape of those of 
Sorema paradoxa. The calyx is funnel-shaped, about 3 inch 
long. the acuminate lobes being about one third of its 
length, and somewhat curved outwards, as in 4, celestis, and 
A. rostrata, 
8. Alona microphylla (n. sp.) :—fruticulosa, ramulis tortuo- 
sis nodosis ; foliis parvis, fasciculatis, confertis, spathulato- 
oblongis, carnosulis, viscidulo-pubescentibus 3 floribus 
solitariis, mediocribus, calyce campanulato, ad medium 
5-partito, lobis late triangularibus, pubescenti, pilis glan- 
dulosis, aliisque articulatis 3 corolla pubescenti, limbo amplo 
campanulato, staminibus styloque exsertis.—Chile ad 
Conceptionem. ». s. in herb. Hooker. (Bridges, n. 1330), 
This is another low growing suffruticose Species, with very 
much the habit of some of the small-leaved Lyciums. The 
stem and lower portion of the branchlets are tortuous, bare, 
and knotty; the leayes are close, about 3 lin. long, Ito 1 
lin, broad, spathulate, nerveless, fleshy, and covered with 
short, viscid, glandular hairs, The peduncles are ciliate, 
