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Mr. Miers has adopted Brown's very qualified recommendation 

 to change the orthography of Jussieu's Acicarpha to Acicarpa. But 

 surely carpha may as well refer to calycine as to bracteal chaif, and 

 the substituted name has no great advantage in etymological appro- 

 priateness. 



Valerianacece, 



Valeriana ptcnantha (sp. nov.) : herbacea, glaberrima, nana, 

 multiceps e caudice crasso ; foliis carnosis baud ciliatis, radicalibus 

 lineari-spathulatis, caulinis 2 vel 3 verticillatis oblongis sessilibus ver- 

 sus medium scapi simplicissirai 1 - 4-pollicaris ; floribus scarioso-brac- 

 teatis in capitulum demum oblongum arete congestis ; achcniis anguste 

 ovato-oblongis lateribus enerviis ; pappo 5 - 7-radiato, setis basi con- 

 natis. — Alpamarca, high Andes of Peru. 



Valeriana globularis (sp. nov.) : herbacea, depressa, cnespitosa, 

 glabra ; caudice crasso ; foliis omnibus radicalibus subcarnosis anguste 

 spathulatis vel sublinearibus basi attenuatis integerrimis ; scapo nudo 

 1 -o-pollicari cajiitulum globosum scarioso-bracteatum gerentibus ; ache- 

 niis ovalibus lateribus enerviis; pappo 10 — 12-radiato, setis basi con- 

 natis. — Var. scapo brevissimo. — Casa Cancha, high Andes of Peru. 



Valeriana rhizantha (sp. nov.) : glabra; radice crassa fusiformi 

 foliis rosulatis spathulato-rotundatis carnosis capitulum florum arete ses- 

 sile depressum circumdantibus coronata ; pappo cupulato brevissimo 

 5-radiato, radiis dentiformibus nudis per anthesin involutis. — Alpa- 

 marca, high Andes of Peru. " Succulent and said to be esculent ; root 

 fusiform," very large ; " leaves an inch in length and breadth, obtuse, 

 surrounding a central cake of flowers, all even at the surface and 

 densely congested." Pickering, adn. Bracts scarious, not connate. 

 Setae of the pappus reduced to short, dentiform, naked processes on 

 the border of a cup like* that of many Valerians, within which they 

 are inrolled in the usual manner. So that this species militates 

 strongly against Persoon's genus Phyllactis, as recently restored and 

 extended by Weddell. 



Ericacece. 



Vaccinium Maderense, Link, and the allied V. Arctostaphylos, 

 enumerated by Klotzsch (in Linnaea, 24, p. Go) among the " non satis 

 notce" having simply five-celled berries, awnless anthers, and at length 

 campanulate corollas, belong to the section Vitis-Idcea, notwithstanding 

 theu- deciduous leaves. 



