280 Mr. J. Miet's on the Calyceracese.* 
manner a number of hollow tubular spaces, in three or four 
irregularly concentric series, spread over the surface of the re- 
ceptacle: each of the spaces thus constituted contains three or 
four florets; but the spaces here formed are wrongly designated 
alveole of the receptacle as this term is generally used by bota- 
nists ; hence the term employed by Lessing was evidently mis- 
understood by DeCandolle. I have drawn up the following as 
a more correct expression of its generic features :— 
GamocaRPHaA, Dec. — Jnvolucrum 5-6-phyllum ; foliola ovata, 
crasso-carnosa, integra, margine subcartilaginea, subacuta, 
imo in tubum brevissimum margini receptaculi coalitum 
accreta. Receptaculum convexiusculum, carnosum; palee 
magne, foliaceze, inter flores onuste, nonnulle libere, spathu- 
latee, plereeque ovate, carnosule, involucro equilonge, imo 
late, marginibus usque ad medium mutuo coneretis in verti- 
cilla 3-4 subconcentrica coalite, istis e septis plurimis inter- 
jectis in nidulos multos tubzformes 3—4-seriales constitutis : 
hoc modo transmutate, per totum receptaculum sparse, et 
imo eo arcte accrete ; flores in singulo nidulo 3—4 imo insiti, 
plerique fertiles, 5-meri, rarius abortu 4-meri. Calycis tubus, 
ovario adnatus, margine discreto 5-dentato, dentibus zequali- : 
bus, ellipticis, acutis, erectis, carnosulis. Corolla regularis, f 
infundibuliformis, tubo gracili longo, limbo 5-lobo; lobis 
oblongis, obtusiusculis, apice crassioribus et macula fusca i 
notatis, 3-nerviis. Stamina 5, inclusa; filamenta brevissima, 
imo in annulum monadelphum constrictioni tubi insertum coa- 
lita, superne libera, et introrsum arcuata: anthere inferne syn- 
genesie, et breviter sagittatee, apice liberze, connectivo crasso 
dorsali filamento continuo affixe. -Ovarium obovatum, ultra j 
medium ad calycem accretum, apice liberum, conicum, 1-locu- 
lare, l-ovulatum. Séylus filiformis, longe exsertus, apice 
incrassato-cylindraceus. Stigma minimum, globosum, papil- 
loso-rugosum. Achzenium ignotum. 
Herbz Chilenses, Andicole, cespitose, acaules, rhizomate elon- 
gato, repente stolonifero, colles plurimos intersistentes folii- 
Seros emittente ; folia subradicalia, congesta, lineari-spathulata, 
integerrima, carnosa ; scapi pauct, monocephali, folio longiores, 
sepius nudi, rarius foltis 1-2 supra medium donati, teretes, 
carnosi; capitulum hemisphericum, carnosum. 
1. Gamocarpha Péppigit, DC. Prodr. v. 2; Remy in Gay, Chile, 
ili. 247; Weddell, Chl. And, ii. 8;—Boopis alpina, Pépp. 
Nov. Gen. i. 21, tab. 33; Lessing, Linn. vi. 258 ;—acaulis, 
foliis subradicalibus, confertis, obovato-ellipticis, apice mucro- 
natis, integris, carnosis, margine cartilagineis, glaberrimis, 
