132 Mr, J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiese. 



ments : the fruit, consisting of two nuts enclosed in the persis- 

 tent caljx, is polished and glabrous. 



10. Cochranea hispidula^ n. sp. ; — crebre ramosissima, ramis 

 subrugoso-striatis, ramulis subdivergentibus, teretibus, brun- 

 neis, pilosis ; foliis fasciculatis, sessilibus, spathulato-lineari- 

 bus, obtusis, marginibus valde revolutis, camosulis, fusco- 

 viridibus, undique hispidulis ; paniculis in ramulis termi- 

 nalibus, brevibus, bis dichotome divisis, pubescentibus ; 

 ramis ultimis 2-seriatim spicatifloris ; floribus paucis, crebris, 

 sessilibus ; stigmate stylo 6-plo longiore, apice 2-fido, laci- 

 niis 2-dentatis. — In Chile boreali : v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 (Lobb, 440). 



This is evidently a low-growing shrub, with extremely 

 crowded, elongated branchlets, 3-4 lines apart, 8 or 9 inches 

 long, the lower ones again branching, the upper ones simple : 

 the axils are 3 lines apart ; the leaves are 4-6 lines long, \ line 

 broad. The peduncle of the inflorescence is 6 lines long, its 

 branches 6 lines long, their ultimate 2- or 3-spicated branch- 

 lets being 9 lines long 5 the calyx is tubular, cleft halfway into 

 five erect teeth, is pubescent on both sides, 1 line long ; the 

 tube of the corolla is 1 line long, pubescent outside, with a 

 border 2 lines in diameter ; the pistil is 1 line long ; the stigma, 

 eight times the length of the style, annular at base, slenderly 

 conical, cleft for a quarter of its length into two bidentate 

 segments. 



11. Cochranea chenopodiacea^ — Heliophytum chenopodiaceum, 

 A. DC Prodr. ix. 553; — Heliotropium chenopodiaceum, 

 Gay^ Chile^ iv. 458 ; — nana, divaricato-ramosissima, gla- 

 bella ; ramulis subrigidis, teretibus, flavidulis, junioribus 

 obsolete puberulis ; axillis cupula prominente munitis ; foliis 

 fasciculatis, parvis, spathulato-linearibus, subteretibus, mar- 

 ginibus valde revolutis, carnosulis, fere sessilibus, glabris 

 vel subviscosis : paniculis terminalibus, bis dichotome di- 

 visis, ramis ultimis tenuibus, spicatifloris ; floribus paucis, 

 sessilibus, pallide caeruleis ; calyce tubuloso, 5-dentato, extus 

 pilosulo ; stigmate stylo 2-plo longiore, apice obtuso, breviter 

 bifido. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Hook, ex Mus. Paris. ^ pro v. 

 Copiapo, ad montes Arqueros (Gay). 



This plant was found by Gay in the more northerly pro- 

 vince of Copiapo, in the silver-mining district of Arqueros, 

 and is distinct from the plant I have referred to C. filifoliaj 

 which has been confounded with it. Gay says it is a low 

 shrub, not more than a foot high, with many short stiff spread- 

 ing branches, which are terete, covered with a yellowish, 



