126 Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiez. 
gins; the tube of the corolla is 2 lines long, glabrous, with 
five glands in its mouth; the border is 2} lines in diameter, 
white, with red nervures, becoming pink when faded; the 
stamens, half the length of the tube, reach its mouth; the 
ovary is 4-grooved, seated on a crenulated disk; the style is 
about the same length; the stigma, double that length, is an- 
nulated at its base, conical, and simply 2-fid to nearly its 
middle*. 
Var. auriculata ;—caulibus erectis, rugosis; foliis creberrime 
divaricatis, imbricatim tectis ; ramulis paucis, fuscis, granu- 
lato-papillosis; foliis in axillis approximatis circiter 10, 
longe linearibus, sessilibus, imo latioribus et subauriculatis, 
marginibus subsinuatis, subrevolutis, supra glabris: pani- 
culis terminalibus, corymbosis; stigmate stylo equilongo, 
apice 3-dentato.—In Chile: v. s. in herb. Hook. (Lobb, 442). 
A plant with the habit of C. congesta, differing in its more 
crowded, more divaricated, longer leaves. It is probably a 
distinct species intermediate between C. congesta and C. si- 
nuata, differing extremely from the latter in its habit, its longer, 
narrower, and more crowded leaves. The leaves (generally 
eight or ten in each approximated axil) are 14-2 inches long, 
1 line broad, quite glabrous above, with subsinuated margins, 
are minutely puberulous or pulverulent below, when examined 
under a strong lens; the peduncle and its branches are pubes- 
cent; the acute-lanceolate sepals are pilose on both sides; the 
cylindrical tube of the corolla is angular and pilose ; the stigma 
(rather longer than the style) is somewhat conical, and 3-den- 
ticulated at its apex. In Bridges’s No. 1838, referred by De 
Candolle to H. myosotifolia, where I have placed it, the stigma 
is invariably as I have there described it; but here it is con- 
stantly 3-lobed or imperfectly 4-denticulate, as De Candolle 
mentions. There is probably some confusion in the specimens. 
2. Cochranea corymbosa, n. sp.;—valde ramosa; ramis brun- 
neis, rugosis; ramulis longis, adscendentibus, subflexuosis, 
epidermide rubente laxa rimosa nitente vestitis ; foliis ma- 
joribus fasciculatis, late lanceolatis, acumine brevi obtu- 
sulo, in petiolum longum imo dilatatum sensim cuneatis, 
planis, submembranaceis, tenuissime nervosis, utrinque sub- 
glabris, rugulosis, versus marginem et in costa subsca- 
brido-pilosis : paniculis in ramulis terminalibus, corymbosis, 
glabris; pedunculo longissimo, compresso, rubente, nitido, 
superne alternatim et subremote ramoso ; ramulis apice bis 
* A drawing of this plant, with ample analytical details, will be shown 
in Plate 53 a, in the second volume of my ‘ Contributions.’ 
