folded; stamen-tube shorter than the ovary, bearing 5 oblong ap- 
pendages between the filaments, and only about one-fourth the 
length of the latter; fertile filaments 3,the anthers reaching about 
to the middle of the perianth, about double the length of the 
brown strongly compressed ovary, which is nearly twice as broad 
as long, shortly stipitate and with a large capitate sessile stigma; 
fruit two-thirds as long as the perianth, slightly emarginate. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (954). Near A. paronychioides St. Hil. 
Gomphrena glabrata (Mart.) Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 2, 388. 
Yungas, 1890 (255). 
Gomphrena Gardneri Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 2, 404(?). Apparently 
a young state of Gardner's 2293. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (932). 
Gomphrena decumbens Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. M. 482 (?). Vic. 
Cochabamba, 1891 (933). The same as specimens collected 
by Pearce, Bridges and Simcaya, and Glaziou's 11,425. 
Gomphrena acaulis Remy, Ann. Sci. Nat. (3) 6: 350 (1846). 
Talca Chugiaguilla, April, 1891 (812) — Mandon's 1017 ; also 
a specimen by Pearce, but not that of Bridges with deep 
brown calyx. 
Iresine celosioides L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1456. Yungas, 1890 (228, 477 
and 643). 
CHENOPODIACEAE 
Chenopodium foetidum Schrad. in Mag. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. 2: 
79 (1808). Talca Chugiaguila, Apr. 1891 (799) Vic. 
Cochabamba, 1891 (1004). 
Chenopodium Quinoa Wild. Sp. 1: 1301. Vic. La Paz. 1889 (61). 
Chenopodium murale L. Sp. Pl. 219. (2). Vic. La Paz. 1890 
(199). 
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. Sp. Pl. 219. Vic. La Paz, 1889 
(3) Yungas, 1890 (281). 
Chenopodium Chilense Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gott. 2 (1832). 
Vic. La Paz, 1889 (52). 
Atriplex cristata Willd. Sp. 4: 959 (1805). H.B.K. (1817). Vic. 
La Paz, 1889 (84). 
ATRIPLEX RusBvi Britton sp. n. 
Odor resinous; thinly and compactly scurfy, the branches nu- 
merous, erect, elongated, slender, flexuous, terete, whitish, the 
internodes about two-thirds as long as the leaves; petioles very 
stout, 2-4 mm. broad; blades 10-25 mm. long, 12-25 mm. broad, 
