56 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
This is an erect low-growing shrub, with slender woody 
stems, and numerous short flexuose branchlets, which are 
densely covered with long white cottony hairs; the leaves are 
fasciculated, linear, spathulate with fleshy rounded summits, 
pubescent, scarcely 1 line in length ; the flowers are terminal, 
solitary, and erect, hardly more than 4 inch long, and 14-2 
lines diam.; the calyx is 1} line long; 5 to 8 small drupes 
become matured in each calyx, in the specimen I examined I 
found 6, of which one was 2-celled, and five were 1-celled, 
with a single seed in each cell; the nuts are ovoid, rounded, 
somewhat angular, the basal point of attachment being 
small, and the opening into each cell marked by a round scar 
or areola, as in Sorema.* 
2. Doxta salsoloides, Lindl.—ramis calvis junioribus pube 
brevissima sparsis ; foliis fasciculatis linearibus fere glabris, 
calycis dentibus linearibus, obtusis, subpubescentibus, 
tubo corolle fere equalibus.—Chile. (Macrae). 
The leaves of this species are 4 lines long, } line broad, 
slightly ciliated, or exhibiting under a lens a few scattered 
articulated hairs; the peduncle is about the length of the 
leaves; the calyx is about 3 lines long, divided half way 
down into 5 segments, which are linear, obtuse, fleshy, and 
sparsely covered with short pubescence ; the corolla is about 
4 lines long. 
3. Douta clavata (n. sp.).—omnino calva ; foliis fasciculatis, 
carnosulis, lineari-spathulatis, imo pulvinatis ; calycis den- 
tibus linearibus, obtusis, tubo corolle dimidio brevioribus ; 
staminibus exsertis, filamentis basi sericeis.—Chile ad 
Conceptionem. v. 8. in herb. Hooker. (Bridges, n. 1324.) 
This species has much the aspect of the last, but the leaves 
are broader, spathulate and rounded, 3 lines long, and 1 line 
wide, they are quite glabrous and fleshy; the peduncle is of 
the — length as the leaves ; the calyx about 2 lines long, 
is divided halfway down, its segments being linear, obtuse, 
* A figure of this species is shown in Plate 11, together with sectional 
