90 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
rolla hypogyna, tubulosa, tubo gracili, elongato, rarius sub- 
infundibuliformi, ore campanulato, limbo amplo, expanso, 
breviter 5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, zstivatione plicato. Sta- 
mina 5, corolle fauci, rarius medio inserta, exserta, raris- 
sime inclusa, ineequilonga, circa stylum conniventia; an- 
theris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, stigmate circumplexis. 
Ovarium breviter stipitatum, 2-loculare, placentis dissepi- 
mento adnatis, multiovulatis, eyatho (corolle reliquo) 
demum circumdatum. Stylus simplex. Stigma sub- 
laterale, oblunato-bilamellatum, lamellis reflexis. Capsula 
calyce persistente tecta, 2-locularis, septicide 2-valvis, 
valvis introflexis demum 2-partitis, dissepimento placen- 
tari libero. Semina plurima, minima, ovata, facie interna 
angulata, hilo ventrali. Hméryo intra albumen carnosum 
fere rectus, cotyledonibus oblongis, compressis, radicula 
infera tereti vix latioribus, et longitudine equantibus.— 
Herbee Austro-Americane procumbentes vel radicantes, viz 
suffruticulose, foliis alternis solitariis v. geminis integerri- 
mis, floribus extra-axillaribus vel oppositifoliis, solitariis, 
subsessilibus, albis vel violascentibus. 
1. Nierembergia repens, R. et P. Fl. Per. 2, 13, tab. 123 c.— 
caule basi repente, ramulis erectis filiformibus ; foliis sub- 
fasciculatis, oblongis, pilosulis ; floribus subsessilibus, ca- 
lyce curvato, tubuloso, lobis obtusiusculis.—Chile ad Con- 
ceptionem.—v. s. in Herb. Hook. (Cuming. n. 135.) 
The leaves in the specimens I have seen are ovate, about 
5 lines long, 3 lines broad, on a short petiole of 2 lines, they 
are thinly covered with short pubescence; the calyx is about 
3 lines long, also pubescent; the corolla is white, with a long 
slender tube, about an inch in length, and a broad campanu- 
late border, nearly 9 lines diameter, divided into 5 rather 
short, rounded lobes, each of which is marked with 3 purple 
longitudinal lines, the throat being of a yellowish colour. 
2. Nierembergia spathulata, H. B, K. nov. gen. sp. 3, 8.— 
eaule lignoso repente, fibrillis tuberoso-nodosis 3 Tamulis 
erectis filiformibus puberulis; foliis solitariis vel geminis 
elliptico-spathulatis, longe petiolatis, glabris margine cilio- 
latis, junioribus lanuginoso-pubescentibus; calyce subsessili 
