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medium adnatz et cum eo quasi vaginam membranaceam formantes, parte libera 
membranacea lineari-obtusa 3 mm. longa uti vagina facie et in dorso glabra, ad 
margines sparse stellata; lamina ambitu plus minusve reniformis, 2 mm. longa, 
5 mm. lata, trifida, segmentis lateralibus vulgo 3-fidis vel flabellatim 7-lobis, lobis 
integris vel trifidis, lacinulis obeuneatis vel oblongo-obtusis supra et ad apicem supra 
et infra sparse stellato-tomentosis. Flores leviter petiolo insidentes. Calyx supra 
medium 5-lobus, 5-6 mm. longus, lobis triangulari-acutis cirea 2 mm. longis sparse 
stellatis. Corolla rosea, 3-35 mm. longa, obovata, basi in tubum sub 1 mm. longum 
coalita. Carpelia circa 8, 3-3-5 mm. longa, bi-rostrata, rostris 1 mm. longis, dorso 
minute stellata. 
Malvastrum parviflorum, Philippi, Viaje à la Prov. de Tarapacá, p. 9; Baker fil. in Journ. Bot. xxix. 
p. 968 ; Reiche, Fl. Chile, i. p. 235. 
COnurini: Prov. Tarapacá, Alto de Machuca, 3200 m., Philippi (Herb. Kew.: PI. 28. 
fig. 10). 
This species is easily distinguished from its nearest allies by its minute flowers, and, 
like the other forms collected by Philippi in the desert of Atacama, may represent a 
dwarf reduced form of some species growing in the Puna of Bolivia a little further 
to the north. With the exception of the two annuals, JV. parviflora is the smallest 
known species of this genus. It appears to be most closely allied to N. Meyeni and 
N. turritella. 
From the figure of the leaf it will be seen that the lamina appears to be cut into 
three segments, the median one remaining small, whilst the two lateral ones are broken 
up into two or three 3-lobed portions (Pl. 28. fig. 10). A similar type of lamina is found 
in N. Meyeni (Pl. 28. fig. 9). 
A figure of the fruit is given (Pl. 30. fig. 11). 
33. NororgricuE Meyent, E. Ulbrich, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xlii. 1908, p. 120. 
Malvastrum borussicum, Wedd. Chlor. And. ii. p. 278, partim. 
Malvastrum sajamense, Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. p. 319, partim. 
Malvastrum Meyeni, Solms- Laubach, nomen in Bot. Zeit. 1907, p. 126. 
Perv, Curt, BoniviA: in mont. Sajama vel Tacora, 4500-4800 m., Stübel, 108 i. A 
(Herb. Berol.). 
PrERU: Altos de Toledo, 4700 m., Meyen (ex herb. Kunth in Herb. Berol.); without 
precise locality, Lobb (Herb. Kew. : Pl. 28. fig. 9). | 
This plant, to which the name Meyent has been given by Count Solms-Laubach, was 
collected in the first instance by Meyen in 1831, and has recently been described by 
E. Ulbrich. Specimens occur both at Berlin and at Kew and in each case they are 
on the same sheet with a very different form, the true Sida borussica of Meyen (v. note 
on X. borussica, pp. 236, 237). The only other specimens of vius species are among 
Stübel's collection from Sajama and Tacora and were formerly included under Malvne- 
trum sajamense. The habitat of the species therefore seems to be in the Puna of the 
borderland region of Chili, Bolivia ,and Peru. uas 
. Count Solms has dealt at some length * with the question of the relationship of this 
* Solms-Laubach, in Dot. Zeit. 1907, pp. 126, 127. 
