MACLOSKIE: SOLANACE^. 711 



lanceolate, obtuse, lineate. Corolla tubular within the calyx-tube, slen- 

 der, then enlarged and funnel-campanulate. Stamens unequal, inserted 

 in top of tube, filiform, puberulous. Style straight, half as long as corolla. 

 (Chili) ; Patagon., near Rio Sta. Cruz. 



9. NIEREMBERGIA Ruiz & Pav. 



Low, perennial herbs, generally slender and glabrous, with entire leaves 

 and often violet or pale showy flowers. Corolla-tube long and slender, 

 with an enlarged, campanulate throat, and a plicate, 5-lobed, spreading 

 limb. Stamens exserted, 4 of them didynamous, the fifth small ; anthers 

 connivent. Disk cup-like or none. Stigma transversely half-moon- 

 shaped. Capsule 2-valved, the valves bifid. Seeds many. 



Species 20, Mexico and S. Amer. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3$, p. 



31, C, Q, R.) 



1. N. HIPPOMANICA Miers. 



Scabrid-pilose. Stem woody, from a thick root, with short, ascending 

 branches. Leaves crowded, spatulate-linear, acuminate, callous-mucro- 

 nate. Flowers small, subpaniculate. Calyx i o-carinate ; its lobes linear, 

 spreading. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx, glandular-hairy ; its 

 limb broad-campanulate, and lobes rounded, rose-white. 



(Argentina, Bahia Blanca, called Chuchu) ; N. Patagon., on stony 

 ground. Poisonous to horses. 



2. N. PATAGONICA Speg. 



Pulvinate-cespitose shrub. Leaves minute, linear, sessile, obtuse, thick, 

 rigid, glabrous, viscid. Flowers solitary on the ends of the branches ; 

 with pedicels twice as long as the leaves. Calyx campanulate, its lobes 

 short, obtuse. Corolla funnelform, large, with 5 broad lobes, yellow, 

 purple-veiny. Very beautiful and peculiar. 



Patagon., by Golfo de San Jorge. 



3. N. RIGIDA Miers. 



Glabrous. Woody root. Stems 2 meters high, branching, erect, flexu- 

 ose, filiform, striate. Leaves narrow-linear, 3 cm. long, 3-costate, mucro- 

 nate-awned. Peduncles solitary, short, 6 mm., oppositifoliose. Calyx 

 lo-costate, its segments awned, thrice as long as its tube. Corolla-tttbe 

 pubescent, its lobes rounded. 



(Argentina) ; N. Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



