My. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiex. 129 
adpresse scabrido-pilosis, marginibus subrevolutis ; inflores- 
centia terminali, pubescente ; pedunculo 2-fido, in ramos di- 
chotome spicatifloros diviso; floribus crebriter sessilibus ; 
stigmate stylo brevissimo 8-plo longiore, imo incrassato, 
sursum acutissime conico, ad medium 2-fisso, laciniis sub- 
setaceis.—In Chile: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Coquimbo 
(Bridges, 1338). 
This appears to be a low straggling shrub, with irregularly 
spreading branches covered with a glabrous splitting epidermis; 
the lower ones are knotty, with prominent leafless nodes; the 
upper branches are terete and pubescent, with axils 2-6 lines 
apart. The leaves are 8 lines long, 1 line broad; the peduncle 
of the terminal inflorescence is 9 lines long, its branches 3-4 lines 
long, each bearing two short spikes, all forming a corymbose 
head; the sepals are 2 lines long, acutely linear, pilose on 
both sides; the tube of the corolla is 1$ line long, somewhat 
sarger about the mouth, and pilose outside, with a border 
34 lines in diameter, with five radiating, broad, coloured 
nervures ; anthers 1 line long, reaching the mouth; pistil 14 
line long, the ovary, style, and stigma being in the proportions 
Gia bo. 
6. Cochranea florida ;—Heliophytum floridum, 4A. DC. Prodr. 
ix. 553 ;—Heliotropium floridum, Gay, Chile, iv. 457 ;— 
e basi ramosissima, ramis subangulatis, ramulisque crebris, 
rufescentibus, glabris ; foliis linearibus, obtusis, mo angus- 
tissime spathulatis, planis aut marginibus vix revolutis, 
utrinque subrugulosis, fere glabris aut versus margines ob- 
solete pilosis: paniculis terminalibus, corymbosis, 1—3-ra- 
mosis, ramis spicatifloris; floribus sessilibus, majusculis ; 
stigmate stylo fere equilongo, imo annulato, apice 2-fisso, 
laciniis 2-dentatis.—In Chile: v.s. in herb. Hook., Coquimbo 
(Cuming, 858 ; Bridges, sine num?®.) ; ex Mus. Paris. (Gay). 
A low-growing shrub, with suberect or decumbent stems, 
with ascending, very approximated branches, covered with a 
lax, reddish, shining epidermis; leaves 8-10 lines long, 1-14 
line broad, decurrent on a petiole of one-fourth their length ; 
peduncle of terminal inflorescence 1 inch long; its branches, 3 
or 4 lines apart, are bare at base, spicated unilaterally, with 
few sessile flowers; the acutely lanceolate sepals, pilose on 
both sides, are 24 lines long; the tube of the corolla is penta- 
gonous, glabrous, 3 lines long, the expanded border 5 lines in 
diameter ; the stamens occupy the upper half of the tube; the 
pistil is 24 lines long; the conical stigma, annular at base, is 
eleft for one-third or one-fourth of its length into two segments, 
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