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inflorescentiæ directo et 2-lamellato, lamellis intervallo disjunctis; ovula 4, erecta ; 
stylus filiformis, apice gradatim dilatatus et compressus, faucem attingens; stigma 
majuseulum, subito uncinatim recurvum, mucronatum, bilamellatim compressum, 
intus papillosum. Drupa calyce distenso dentibus contortu-plicatis coronato inclusa, 
ovata, apiculata, lzevis, vix striata, indehiscens, in carcerulos 2 vi tantum parti- 
bilis; carceruli dorso mesocarpio subsuberoso tecti, ad margines, ad apicem cuneato- 
acuminatum et ad basin cavam medulla crassa extus indurata circumdati ; pyrenes 2, 
in earcerulis immersi, eis dimidio breviores, ovati, plano-convexi, extus profunde 
9-suleati, valleeulis mesocarpio repletis, intus 3-sulcati, hic interspatio separati, 
ossei, singuli 2-loculares; loculi ad basin pro vasibus nutritoriis perforati; columella 
centralis, crasse membranacea, vacua, adnata, vasa ad semina proferens: semina in 
loculis solitaria, oblonga, subteretia, angulo externo-basali funiculo brevi affixa, 
erecta; éntegwmenta tenuissima, raphe laterali ad chalazam apicalem adscendente ; 
embryo in albumine parco inclusus, lineari-cylindricus, cotyledonibus radicula infera 
2-plo longioribus. 
. Herba in Chile et prov. Argentinis vigens, perennis, opposite ramosa, axillis remotiusculis, 
radice fusiformi tubera e fibrillis emittente; folia opposita, subovata, imo in petiolum 
cuneata, dentata; spica terminalis; flores breviter pedicellati, bracteolati, lutescenti- 
rubicundi, odorati. 
1. PHELLODERMA CUNEATO-OVATA, nob.: Castelia cuneato-ovata, Cav. Icon. vi. 61, tab. 583; 
Ann. Sc. Nat. iii. 134, tab. 30: Priva levis, Juss. Ann. Mus. vii. 70; DC. Prodr. 
ii. 533; Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 172; Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 7: Priva orchioides, Walp. Rep. 
iv. 36: Bouchea Copiapensis, Gay, l. c. 26, tab. 55; Bocq. Adans. iii. 236: Verbena 
tuberosa, Grah. Edin. Phil. Journ. xxix. 174: caule ramisque oppositis 4-gonis, inferne 
glabris, superne rigide pilosulis; foliis oppositis, deltoideo-ovatis aut oblongo-ovatis, 
obtusule acutis, imo truncato-cuneatis, in petiolum abeuntibus, irregulariter grosse 
mucronato-dentatis, nervis tenuibus immersis, eveniis, opacis, pallidis, subtus palli- 
dioribus, utrinque sepe rugulosis, glabris, in dentibus tantum scabrido-ciliatis ; 
petiolo latiusculo, compresso, margine breviter ciliato, limbo dimidio breviore : spicis 
terminalibus, longiusculis, brevissime pilosulis; floribus oppositis et pseudo-verticil- 
latis, verticellis cum floribus circiter 6 subremotis; pedicellis brevibus, bracteola 
brevi lanceolata instructis; calyce membranaceo, 5-gono, acutissime 5-dentato, dente 
breviore exteriore; corollæ subbilabiate tubo pubescente, intus pilosulo, albo, fauce 
obliqua lutescente, lobis rubicundis.—In Chile et prov. Argentinis: v. v. in Andibus 
Mendocinis, in desertis cirea Mendozam et ad Tres Cruces, prov. Oordove: v. 8. in 
herb. Hook. Coquimbo (Bridges, 1354) ; Quillota (Bridges, 453); Rio de la Plata in 
arenosis (Tweedie, 1105). w : 
Besides these localities, where I found this plant in 1826, Gay gives its habitat NUM 
in dry places in the province of Copiapo: Ney was the first who discovered it, in 1794, in 
_ the Pampas. It is about a foot and a half high, with a somewhat flexuous tap-root about 
. 8 in. long, its fibrils spreading and producing fleshy tubers about the size of a hazel-nut. 
The stem is fistulous, bearing leaves from the base, with axils 2 in. apart, and throwing 
