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we may safely add the present one, whose leaves, especially 

 about the nerves, stems, and calyx, are thickly clothed 

 with patent aculei, and whose capsule is so entirely covered 

 with them that nothing but the stigma is seen. The colour of 

 the flower, which is here of a delicate rose tint, may possi- 

 bly vary; yet as colour appears constant in other species, it 

 will probably prove so in this. It is perhaps not uncommon 

 in the countries of the Pacific. I possess the same species, 

 gathered by Mr. Menzies in the Sandwich Islands : and it 

 is probably the A. Mexicana of Schlechtendal and Chamisso, 

 in the 1st vol. of the Linnaea, p. 552. This they unite with 

 one from the Philippine Isles, and with an East Indian species 

 from Dr. Roxburgh, and say that it differs from the Bra- 

 zilian plant, " caule saspe numero spinis reversis horridis- 

 simo, capsula copiosioribus minoribusque spinis obsita, 

 quae in Americanae majores sunt et parcae." — The true A. 

 Mexicana is indeed also found in Chili, and I have very fine 

 specunens from Valparaiso, sent by Mr. Bridges, retaining 

 all their true characters. 



III. CAPPARIDE^. Juss. 



I. Gynandropsis pentaphylla ; glabriuscula, foliis mediis 

 5-foliolatis, infimis floralibusque 3-foliolatis, foliolis 

 integris subserrulatisve. De Cand. Prodr. v. \. p. 238. — 

 Cleome pentaphylla. Linn. Sp. PL p. 938. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1681. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 122. 



Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



IV. POLYGALEtE. Juss. 



]. Monnina nemorosa; foliis elliptico-oblongis acutis mucro- 

 natis (vel obtusis) basi angustatis et revolutis obsolete 

 denticulatis subvenosis crassiusculis glabris, junioribus 

 ramulisque pubescentibus, racemis bifidis simplicibusve. 

 DC. — Humh. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. jo. 410. t. 504. De Cand. 

 Prodr. V. I. p. 339. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 175. — 

 Hebeandra mucronata. " Bonpl. Ges. Berl. 1808. p. 40." 



The figure of Humboldt and Kunth, above quoted, so 

 well resembles this plant, that I can scarcely think they can 



