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three or four leaves spring, which are 3-5 lines long : the 

 peduncle is 2-3 lines long, with geminate or three alternate 

 spikes 3 lines apart, 1-1 ^ inch long, rigidly and shortly pilose; 

 the sessile flowers are 1-2 lines apart ; the sepals, | line long, 

 are connate at base into a short cup, with oblong segments, 

 callous at the apex, fleshy, pale green, pilose on both sides ; 

 tube of corolla 1 line long, wider and pilose above, with a 

 border 2 lines in diameter ; pistil the length of tube of corolla, 

 with a subglobose sulcated ovary seated on a 10-lobed disk ; 

 the stigma, annular at base and as broad as the ovary, six 

 times as long as the style, tapering to an obtuse point, cleft 

 for a quarter of its length into two obtuse segments. 



9. Cochranea filifolia^ n. sp. ; — ramosissima, ramis teretibus, 

 nodosis, epidermide grisea rugulosa tectis, striatellis ; ramulis 

 alternatim approximatis, subadscendentibus, glabris, juniori- 

 bus papilloso-tomentosis ; foliis in axillis, plurimis, in- 

 sequalibus, fasciculatis, rarius solitariis, spathulato-lineari- 

 bus, parvis, crassiusculis, granuloso-rugosis, divergentibus : 

 paniculis floribundis, in ramulis terminalibus, glanduloso- 

 puberulis ; pedunculo bis dichotome diviso, ramis ultimis 

 tenuibus, spicatifloris ; floribus sub-2-seriatis, remotiusculis, 

 sessilibus ; sepalis brevibus, extus farinaceo-leprosis ; stig- 

 mate imo lato, conico, profunde 2-fido, laciniis obtuse 2- 

 dentatis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb, Mus. Brit, et Hook.^ Co- 

 quimbo (Bridges, 1343). 



These specimens of Bridges's collection, though under the 

 same number as C. chenopodiacea in M. de Boissier's herba- 

 rium, are specifically very distinct from it. The plant is 

 everywhere covered with a resin-like minute granulation ; the 

 leaves are more than twice the length and narrower than 

 those in the species referred to : it is somewhat cricoid in its 

 habit, with the young branchlets terete, fulvous, and rugulose, 

 6-8 inches long, with axils 3-4 lines apart. The leaves are 

 3-6 lines long, \ line broad. The peduncle of the terminal 

 inflorescence is f-1 inch long, twice dichotomous, the ultimate 

 branches spicated, 2 inches long, with about eight rather large 

 sessile flowers, 3-4 lines apart, all forming a corymbose pani- 

 cle ; the sepals are | line long, obovate, obtuse, erect, fleshy, 

 covered with whitish leprous scales, glabrous within ; the tube 

 of the corolla is cylindrical, 1 line long, the border being 3^ 

 lines in diameter ; the ovary, subglobose, 4-grooved, is seated 

 on a lobed disk ; the stigma is six times as long as the very 

 short style, has a basal ring broader than the ovary, is shortly 

 conical, obtuse, cleft halfway into two obtuse 2-dentate seg- 



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