130 Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropieae. 



2-dentIculate at their apex. In Bridges's specimen the flowers 

 are paler and smaller, and the leaves narrower. 



7. Cockranea hehecula^ 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 1^ 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, axiflis cupula brevissima obtusa promi- 

 nula foliigera munitis ; foliis pluribus, fasciculatis, par vis, 

 linearibus, sessilibus, apice callosis, carnosulis, enerviis, 

 supra pilis rigidulis, imo tuberculatis scabridulis, subtus 

 costa et marginibus subrevolutis scabridule hirtellis : pani- 

 culis terniinalibus, pilosis, saepius geminatim spicatifloris ; 

 floribus sessilibus, minoribus ; stigmate longissimo, incluso, 

 2-fido, laciniis obtusis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Mus, Brit, 

 et Hook. J Coquimbo (Bridges, 1339). 



This appears to be a low straggling shrub, with very slender 

 divaricating branches, having much the habit of an Aloysia-j 

 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, 

 produced by the persistent base of the midrib of the exterior 

 leaf: out of these cupular nodes, which are .2-3 lines apart, 



