of the Galapagos Archipelago. 217 
Galapagos have neither flower nor fruit. It approaches the R. Reblun 
(Hook. & Arn.) of Chili. 
Borreria, Meyer. 
The following species belong to DeCandolle’s second section, “floribus 
in axillis subfasciculatis aut solitariis," and they all seem peculiar to the 
small group of islands under consideration. "The corollas are furnished with 
a tuft of hair above the faux. The stipules have long cilia. The flowers and 
fruit are small, and the seeds rough with depressed tubercles, but the latter 
organs afford scarcely any character. 
178. Borreria pispersa, Hook. fil.; radice lignosá, caulibus diffusis prostratis 
vagé dichotomé ramosis acut? tetragonis glaberrimis v. pilis minutissimé 
conspersis levibus nitidis, foliis subsessilibus latè ellipticis mucronatis 
suprà glabriusculis marginibus subrecurvis ciliatis subtis glaberrimis, 
corollz limbo calycem vix superante. 
Hab. Charles and James Islands, Charles Darwin, Esq. 
Caules graciles, vix diam. pennz passerine. Folia pallidé virescentia, coriacea, 4-5 lin. 
longa, subtüs pallidiora. 
179. Borreria LiNEAnIFOLIA, Hook. fil.; caulibus elongatis gracilibus pro- 
cumbentibus vagé divaricatim ramosis, inferné teretiusculis sublignosis, 
ramulis acuté tetragonis glaberrimis nitidis, foliis patentibus lineari-lan- 
ceolatis planis acutis mucronatis suprà tenuiter hispido-pilosis margini- 
bus lenté recurvis ciliatis subtis glaberrimis, corolla ut in B. dispersd. 
Hab. James Island, Charles Darwin, Esq. 
Caules pedales et ultra, graciles, remoté foliosi, inferné cortice rufo tecti, subteretes. Folia 
2-4 unc. longa, plana, 13-2 lin. lata, luridé viridia, subtüs pallidiora. 
Very different from the last in the form of the foliage. 
180. BonRERIA sUBERECTA, Hook. fil.; tota hispido-pilosa, radice caulibusque 
inferioribus lignosis, ramis striatis suberectis virgatis acutd tetragonis 
foliosis, foliis linearibus pungentibus patulis curvatisve marginibus revo- 
lutis utrinque hispido-pilosis coriaceis, calycis laciniis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis corollam subzequantibus, fructibus majusculis pilosis. 
Var. 8. flaccida, ramis tenuioribus, foliis submembranaceis. 
Hab. Albemarle Island, Mr. Macrae, 
