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foliage, than the MutisKE. One species, the M. speciosa, 

 has been cultivated at the Royal Gardens at Kew, and figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, at the first plate of the New Se- 

 ries of that work ; but as it has pinnated leaves, somewhat 

 similar to those of a Vicia, the plant assumes an appearance 

 very unlike the present individual. For representations of 

 other MutisicB, we are hitherto indebted almost whollv to 

 Cavanilles and Humboldt. 



I intend to make known, by this work, some interesting 

 species which I have received from my valuable correspond- 

 dents W. Cruickshanks, Esq. of Valparaiso, and Dr. Gillies 

 of Mendoza ; and I shall esteem myself happy thus to be the 

 means of recommending them to the horticulturist, as no 

 plants can be more worthy of a place in our stoves. 



Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. Fig. 2. Floret of the disk. Fig. 3. Ease 

 of the style to show the sheath which surrounds it. Fig. 4. Base 

 of an anther : — more or less magnified. 



MUTISIA RUNCINATA. 



Mutisia runcinata ; foliis lanceolatis runcinatis decurrentibus cirrhosis, 



subtus albo-tomentosis. (Tab. V.) 

 Mutisia runcinata. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. p. 2069. Sprejig. Sijst. Veget. 



V. 3. p. 505. 

 Mutisia retrorsa. Cav. Ic. 5. p. 65. t. 498. Pcrs. Syyi. PI. v. 2. p. 453. 



Hab. Apud Quebradas, prope villam Vicenziam in Chili. Z). Gillies. 



Caulis frutescens, scandens, flexuosus, angulatus, foliis decurrentibus 

 alatus. Folia alterna, rigidiuscula, lanceolata, runcinata, basi 

 utrinque in alas decurrentia, supra glabra, subtus albo-tomentosa, 

 apice cirrho simplici terminata. Flores ad apicem ramorum 

 terminales. Involiicrum ovato-cylindraceum, squamis infimis par- 

 vis, reflexis, reliquis magnis, erectis, ovatis, submembranaceis. 

 "Corollae radii lineares, tridentatae." {Willd.) 



