132 Ign. Urban, 



subfalciformi minima paullc retroversa instructa, superne dense ac obsolete papulosa. Stamina 

 40 — 60, bene evoluta 6 — 7 mm longa; antherae juniores flavescentes. Capsula semper 

 pendula clavata 2 cm longa, 2 — 2,5 cm crassa, scaberrima, chavtacea, brnnnea vel brunneo- 

 nigrescens, lobis calycinis erectiusculis emarcidis persistentibus (style cadueo), intia lobos 

 ealycinos densissime scabrido-pilosa, postremo valvis 3 triangulari-semiorbicularibus incrassatis 

 cum placentis alternantibus sese aperiens; placentae 3 valde prominentes transversim semi- 

 orbiculares ovula 2-seriatim gerentes. Semina 14 — 18, dense aggregata ac sibi aecumbentia, 

 globosa vel rarins ovali-globosa 4 — 4,5 mm longa, item crassa, nigrescentia vel nigra, sub- 

 laevia, opaca, funiculis nullis, testa tenui membranacea; endospermium copiosum flavescens 

 carnosum valde oleosum. Embryo rectus linearis; cotyledones sublineares quam radicula teres 

 subcylindracea rotundata aequilonga non latiores. 



Habitat in Chile in hnmidis ae umbrosis: Dombey, Leybold, Schazmann, 

 Pbilippi. in Cord, de Eanco: Leehler n. 819, prope Lota in Araueauia: Savatier n. 353, 

 prope Valdivia: ßridges n. 683, in bumidis prope Coquimbo: Gay, loeis ineultis a Cou- 

 cepcion usque ad Cbiloe: Gay (spee. es scbedula prope Carelmapen in Chiloe leeta), 

 ad portum Corouel: Oeliseuius, Cordillera de Talca: Pbilippi in berb. prop. n. 1746, 

 prope Chillan: A. do Solis, Cbiloe: Cunuingbam, prope Concepeion: Germain, Cuiuing 

 u. 824, Coral in prov. Valdivia: Pbilippi pl. chil. edit. Hoben, n. 636, ibidem: Krause, 

 ibidem et prope Morro Gonzales: Leebier pl. cbil. ed. Hoben, n. 710, prope Tome: 

 Pbilippi n. 311. 



Floret m. Octob. — Mart. — V. s. in herb. BeroL, Boissier-Barbey, Mus. Britann., 

 CandoUe, Delessert, Grisebach, Holm., Kew., Martii, Monac, Paris, hört. Petrop., Vindobon. 



5. Loasa uitida Dcsr. foliis inferioribus petiolo laminae dimidium paullo supe- 

 rante in superioribus sensim abbreviato instructis, inferioribus basi ima in petiolum 

 triangulari-produetis, supremis basi subsemiamplexieaulibus, omnibus pinnatifido-lobatis, 

 pinnis apice pierumque aeuminatis vel rarius subaeutiusculis dentieulatis vel in inferi- 

 oribus grosse dentatis vel crenatis; fioribus luteis; petalis sub autbesi patentibus, 

 7 — 8 mm longis, in parte '/n inf plauis sed non uiiguioulatis; Capsula elavata, manifeste 

 erassiore quam lougiore; placentis 3 valde prominentibus ad iusertionem ovulorum band 

 incrassatis; ovulis paucis. 



Loasa nitida Best: in Lam. Encycl. III. (1789) 581; Jilss. in Ann. Mus. V. 25. 

 t. 2. f. 2; Tratt. Arch. d. Getcächsk I. t. 23; DC. Prodr. III. 321. 



Annua. Radix fibrosa. Caulis prostratus teres ramosus (omnia ex Dombey msc.) 

 in sicco longitudinaliter striatus, cortice arcte accumbente flavescente vel brunneo-flavescente, 

 pilis minimis verticillatim glochidiatis laxe aspersns alils antrorsum spinuligeris rarissime inter- 

 mistis, setis hinc inde obviis, superne cymose evolntus, gemmis serialibus nullis. Folia 

 opposita et decussata, infima petiolo usque ad 5 cm longo laminae dimidium paullo superante 

 in superioribus sensim abbreviato instructa, suprema semper sessilia, ambitu orbiculari-ovata 

 usque ovata, basi semper cordata, inferiora basi ima in petiolum triangulari-producta, suprema 

 basi semiamplexicaulia, usque ad 14 cm longa, 11 cm lata, superiora sensim minora, omnia 

 pinnatifido-lobata, lobis utrinque 5 — 3, ovatis usque oblongis apice rotundatis vel rarius sub- 

 aeutiusculis dentieulatis vel in inferioribus grosse dentatis vel crenatis, supra subglabra (sed 

 numquam „nitida"') pilis minimis verticillatim glochidiatis aliisque antrorsum spinuligeris hinc 



