34 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Phrodus. 



tus convexis, utrinque glanduloso-pubescentibuSj imo callo 

 tumido persistente suffultis, callibus agglomeratis et axillis 

 demum nudis hinc nodosis -, floribus breviter pedunculatis. — 

 Chile, prov. Coquimbo, v, s. in herb. Hook. (Bridges, no. 1330), 

 in herb. Lindl. (Bridges, no. 1331*). 



This appears to be a low bushy stunted shrub, with close, 

 short, flexuose, knotty branchlets, frequently spinescent at the 

 apex, or often reduced to a short spine : the older branches are 

 generally quite bare of leaves, but the younger ones are closely 

 invested with minute fleshy fasciculate semiterete leaves, scarcely 

 more than 1 or 2 lines in length, and barely half a line in thick- 

 ness ; these soon fall ofi", leaving the axils bare, the sterile appear- 

 ance of which is increased by the knotty accretions formed by 

 the persistent tumid bases of the fasciculate leaves ; the peduncle 

 is 2 lines in length ; the calyx, 3 lines long, is somewhat cam- 

 panular, being 2 lines broad, cleft full one-third of its length into 

 five erect equal teeth : the corolla seldom exceeds 6 or 8 lines in 

 length, the portion within the calyx being cylindrical, but it 

 swells above and becomes funnel-shaped, with an expanded 

 border consisting of five obtusely triangular equal lobes; the 

 stamens are inserted in the contracted portion of the tube, where 

 they are very hairy, above they are quite smooth, slender, erect, 

 and extend 2 lines beyond the mouth of the tube ; the style is 

 exserted to the same length f. 



2. Phrodus Bridgesii (n. sp.) ; — fruticosus, ramulis elongatis, 

 teneris, subadscendentibus; foliis fasciculatis, spathulato-linea- 

 ribus, subcarnosis, superne canaliculatis, subtus convexis, utrin- 

 que viscoso-pubescentibus ; corolla calyce 3-plo longiore ; sta- 

 minibus subinsequalibus, longe exsertis, stylo sequilongis. — 

 Chile ad Coquimbo. v. s. in herb. Hook, et Lindl. (Bridges, 

 no. 1332). 



* There is evidently a confusion here in the numbers, which is not un- 

 frequent in many of Bridges's Chile plants, in consequence of two or more 

 specimens having been distributed on the same sheet without attached labels. 

 Owing to this same cause, I have described his no. 1331 as the Dolia vermi- 

 culata; it should have been no. 1330, these numbers having been respec- 

 tively interchanged. Under no. 1332 two very different plants have been 

 distributed ; in Dr. Lindley's herbarium that number corresponds with his 

 ^lona baccata, and in Sir Wm. Hooker's herbarium the same number refers 

 to a very distinct plant, which I have correctly described under the name of 

 Sorema acuminata. I may here also observe, that there exists another error 

 connected with some of Bridges's plants formerly described by me, inasfar 

 as regards their locality : i\\\xs Sorema acuminata {LowA. Journ. Bot iv. 370), 

 Sorema linearis (id. 499), Alona ericifoUa (id. 501), and Dolia clavata (id. 

 508), are all from the neighbourhood of Coquimbo, and not iVom Concepcion, 

 as I found inscribed in mistake on the specimens referred to. 



t This plant with generic details will be figured in the ' lUustr. South 

 Amer. Plants,' plate 42 A. 



