130 Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiex. 
2-denticulate at their apex. In Bridges’s specimen the flowers 
are paler and smaller, and the leaves narrower. 
7. Cochranea hebecula, n. sp.;—ramosissima, ramis griseis, 
creberrime ramulosis, ramulis junioribus dense sericeo- 
pubescentibus, incanis ; foliis fasciculatis, oblongo-linearibus, 
imo in petiolum angustissime spathulatis, apice rotundatis 
aut obtuse attenuatis, carnosulis, subplanis, utrinque incano- 
pilosulis, eveniis: paniculis corymbosis, terminalibus, 2-3- 
spicatis ; floribus majusculis, 1-serialibus; stigmate stylo 
6-plo longiore, 2-fido, laciniis 2-denticulatis—In Chile: 
v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Coquimbo (Bridges, sine num?.). 
This appears to be a bushy plant, with knotted branches 
3 lines thick, divided at their summit into numerous very 
close leaf-bearing ramifications, 8-10 inches long, with branch- 
lets 4-6 inches long; the axils are 3-6 lines apart; the leaves 
8-12 lines long, 1 line broad ; the terminal peduncle is 6 lines 
long, sometimes bearing a single spike, 2 inches long, or with 
two or three alternate spicated branches 3—4 lines apart, much 
shorter, bearing a few large flowers 1 line apart; calyx 1 line 
long, cleft nearly to the base, where it is shortly cupuliform, 
with five acutely oblong segments, densely pilose on both sides; 
the tube of the corolla 14 line long, 5-gonous, somewhat pilose 
outside, with a border 4 lines in diameter; pistil somewhat 
longer than calyx; stigma annular at base, six times as long 
as the style, cleft for one-third of its length into two broadish 
bidenticulate segments. 
8. Cochranea ericoidea, n. sp. ;—ramosissima, ramis ramulis- 
que tenuissimis, divergentibus, pallidis, glaberrimis aut 
molliter puberulis, axillis cupula brevissima obtusa promi- 
nula foligera munitis; foliis pluribus, fasciculatis, parvis, 
linearibus, sessilibus, apice callosis, carnosulis, enerviis, 
supra pilis rigidulis, imo tuberculatis scabridulis, subtus 
costa et marginibus subrevolutis scabridule hirtellis: pani- 
culis terminalibus, pilosis, sepius geminatim spicatifloris ; 
floribus sessilibus, minoribus ; stigmate longissimo, incluso, 
2-fido, laciniis obtusis.—In Chile: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 
et Hook., Coquimbo (Bridges, 1339). 
This appears to be a low straggling shrub, with very slender 
divaricating branches, having much the habit of an Aloysia; 
the lower branches are quite smooth and bare; the foliiferous 
branchlets are very slender, scarcely more than } line in 
thickness, nodose at the axils, with a very short obtuse spine, 
ade epiae by the persistent base of the midrib of the exterior 
eaf: out of these cupular nodes, which are 2-3 lines apart, 
