Myr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiez. 125 
subglobosum, 4-suleatum, 4-loculare, loculis ovulo solitario 
suspenso munitis: stylus teres, superne paulo incrassatus ; 
stigma inclusum, valde elongatum, imo annulo crasso cinc- 
tum, sursum attenuatum, plus minusve profunde 2-fissum, 
laciniis subulatis, integris, vel 2-denticulatis. Fructus ex- 
succus, globosus, profunde 2-sulcatus, calyce persistente in- 
clusus ; nucule 2, semiglobose, marginibus rotundatis, facie 
subplana, foraminulo obsoleto incavate, osseex, singule 2- 
loculares, loculis 1-spermis. Semen ovatum, apice suspen- 
sum ; ¢ntegumenta tenuissima ; albumen parcum, carnosum; 
embryo orthotropus, cotyledonibus ovatis, subcompressis, 
carnosulis, radicula tereti ad summum spectante duplo lon- 
gioribus. 
Suffrutices Chilenses, dumost, odore balsamico scatentes, ra- 
most ; ramis sepe virgatis, valde foliosts ; folia in axillis 
alternis plurima, fasciculata, sepius anguste lineares, mar- 
ginibus interdum valde revolutis : panicula terminalis, pri- 
mum subcapitata, demum expansa, valde ramosa, ramis bre- 
viter divisis et spicatifloris ; flores parvi, 1-laterales, sessiles, 
ebracteatt. 
1. Cochranea conferta, nob. Trav. Chile, 1. 529;—Heliophytum 
stenophyllum, var. rosmarinifolium, DC. Prodr. ix. 552; 
Gay, Chile, iv. 456 ;—ramis strictiusculis, erectis, breviter 
pauciramulosis, in junioribus viscoso-pilosulis, demum 
glabris, confertissime imbricatim foliosis; foliis in axillis 
alternis, plurimis et fasciculatis, anguste linearibus, imo 
spathulatis, sessilibus, marginibus valde revolutis, supra 
subrugulosis, glabris aut obsolete puberulis, subtus parce 
rigido-pilosis: paniculis terminalibus, corymbosis; ramis 
alternis 3-4, spicas plurimas alternas gerentibus; floribus 
sessilibus, uniserlalibus ; stigmate stylo 2-plo longiore, fere 
ad medium 2-fido, laciniis subulatis, obtusulis—In Chile : 
v. v. ad Cuesta larga de Llaillay; v. s. in herb. variis (Cu- 
ming, 377; Bridges, 235); in herb. Hook., Coquimbo 
(Harvey), ex Mus. Paris. Chile (Gay). 
I found this plant in 1822 in the province of Quillota, where 
it is frequent upon the lofty hills, forming a bushy shrub from 
3 to 5 feet in height. Its erect branches are densely covered 
with crowded, imbricated leaves, fasciculated in the approxi- 
mated axils; they are 14-18 lines long, 4 line broad. The 
terminal inflorescence, when fully developed, has a main 
peduncle 14-2 inches long, bractless, expanding into three or 
four alternate branchlets, 9 lines long, bearing many crowded 
sessile flowers arranged unilaterally in a spike; the sepals are 
1} line long, obtusely subulate, glabrous, with ciliated mar- 
