106 MR. JOHN MIERS ON VERBENACEX FROM 
imo cylindrico, superne ampliore, subincurvo, calyce 2-plo longiore, parallele ner- 
voso, extus puberulo, intus antice sub medium pilis albis longis retrorsis hirsuto; 
staminibus subbrevibus, didynamis cum 5^ brevissimo ananthero, inclusis; stylo 
antheras inferiores vix excedente; ovarii structura ea generis; fructu ignoto.—In 
Andibus Chilensibus : v. s. in herb. nostr. Chile (Bridges, 458) ; in herb. Mus. Brit. 
et Hook. Chile (Cuming, 282), Cordillera Chile (.Bridges, 1220). 
This plant does not grow higher than 2 feet, often only half that size; the main stems 
appear to run parallel with the ground, and to throw up vertical branches 13 line thick, 
with branchlets half that thickness, the lower axils are 3-1 inch apart, the upper inter- 
nodes being 13 inch long : the lower leaves are 1 inch long, when unfolded 13 line broad, 
on a slender petiole 13 line long, the upper leaves are almost sessile, 3 lines long; the 
margins of the leaves are folded back to such an extent that they almost meet. In my 
specimen the spikes are 10 lines long; the bracts are 2 lines long, 2 line broad; the 
calyx 3 lines long; the tube of the corolla 4 lines long, the lobes of the border 13 line 
long; both the calyx and corolla are of thinner texture than in the preceding species, and 
the structure of the ovary is exactly like that of all the foregoing plants. 
4. DIOSTEA FILIFOLIA, nob.: suffruticosa, tota pallide glauca, e basi ramosa, ramis tere- 
tibus, striatis, lignosis, ramulisque oppositis, elongatis, tenuiter virgatis, recte 
adscendentibus, obsolete 4-gonis, striolatis, glabris, subfistulosis, internodiis inferio- 
ribus brevioribus, superioribus in ramulis multo longioribus ; foliis oppositis, anguste 
linearibus, imo in petiolum brevem subspathulatis, integris, marginibus revolutis, 
coriaceis, rigide pilosulis, petiolo dilatato cum opposito linea transversali nexo: 
spicis terminalibus, cylindraceis; floribus imbricatis, sessilibus, bractea oblonga 
mucronata calyce breviore instructis; ealyce cylindrico, pilosulo, membranaceo, 
dentibus 5, longis, subulatis, insequalibus, cum nervis totidem continuis, breviore 
postico; coroll: tubo subinfundibuliformi, parallele nervoso, tenuiter membranaceo, 
subineurvo, extus glabro, intus antice retrorsum hirsuto, lobis oblongis, subemar- 
ginatis, antico paulo latiore, expansis ; staminibus brevibus, inclusis, didynamis, cum 
quinto sterili seepius abortivo; ovarii stylique structura ea generis; fructu ignoto.— 
In Andibus Chilensibus: v. s. in herb. nostr. et Hook. Cordillera de Santiago 
(Germain). | 
Germain's specimens were distributed under the name of Verbena spathulata, Hook. 
& Gill which is a very different plant and a true Verbena. This appears to be a low 
very branching shrub; its many branches are lignescent, its upper branchlets hollow 
and filled with pith; the axils in the branches are 1-5 inch apart, and 14-2 inches apart 
in the numerous virgated floriferous branchlets, which are 10 inches long and barely 
4 line thick; the spikes are about 10 lines long, the flowers very imbricated and sub- 
divergent; each bract is 2 lines long, 1 line broad, with a carinate nerve and a mucro- 
nate point, subeuneate at base; the calyx is 3 lines long; the tube of the corolla is 4 
s EN with several parallel nerves, membranaceous, the lobes of the border being 
ne long. 
