34 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Phrodus. 



tus convexis, utvinque glanduloso-pubescentibus, imo callo 

 tumido persistente sufFultis, callibus agglomeratis et axillis 

 demum nudis hinc nodosis ; floribus breviter pedunculatis. — 

 Chile, prov. Coquimbo, v. s. in herb. Hook. (Bridges, no. 1330), 

 in herb. Lindl. (Bridges, no. 1331*). 



This appears to be a low bushy stunted shrub, with close, 

 short, nexuose, knotty branchlets, frequently spinescent at the 

 apex, or often reduced to a short spine : the older branches are 

 generally quite bare of leaves, but the younger ones are closely 

 invested with minute fleshy fasciculate semiterete leaves, scarcely 

 more than 1 or 2 lines in length, and barely half a line in thick- 

 ness ; these soon fall oif, leaving the axils bare, the sterile appear- 

 ance of which is increased by the knotty accretions formed by 

 the persistent tumid bases of the fasciculate leaves ; the peduncle 

 is 2 lines in length ; the calyx, 3 lines long, is somewhat cam- 

 panula^ being 2 lines broad, cleft full one-third of its length into 

 five erect equal teeth : the corolla seldom exceeds 6 or 8 lines in 

 length, the portion within the calyx being cylindrical, but it 

 swells above and becomes funnel-shaped, with an expanded 

 border consisting of five obtusely triangular equal lobes; the 

 stamens are inserted in the contracted portion of the tube, where 

 they are very hairy, above they are quite smooth, slender, erect, 

 and extend 2 lines beyond the mouth of the tube ; the style is 

 exserted to the same length f. 



2. Phrodus Bridgesii (n. sp.) ; — fruticosus, ramulis elongatis, 

 teneris, subadscendentibus; foliis fasciculatis, spathulato-linea- 

 ribus, subcarnosis, superne canal iculatis, subtus convexis, utrin- 

 que viscoso-pubescentibus ; corolla calyce 3-plo longiore ; sta- 

 minibus subinsequalibus, longe exsertis, stylo sequilongis. — 

 Chile ad Coquimbo. v. s. in herb. Hook, et Lindl. (Bridges, 

 no. 1332). 



* There is evidently a confusion here in the numbers, which is not un- 

 frequent in many of Bridges's Chile plants, in consequence of two or more 

 specimens having been distributed on the same sheet without attached labels. 

 Owing to this same cause, I have described his no. 1331 as the Dolia vermi- 

 culata; it should have been no. 1330, these numbers having been respec- 

 tively interchanged. Under no. 1332 two very different plants have been 

 distributed ; in Dr. Lindley's herbarium that number corresponds with his 

 Alona baccata, and in Sir Win. Hooker's herbarium the same number refers 

 to a very distinct plant, which I have correctly described under the name of 

 Sorema acuminata. I may here also observe, that there exists another error 

 connected with some of Bridges's plants formerly described by me, inasfar 

 as regards their locality : thus Sorema acuminata (Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 370), 

 Sorema linearis (id. 499), Alona ericifolia (id. 501), and Dolia clavata (id. 

 508), are all from the neighbourhood of Coquimbo, and not from Concepcion, 

 as I found inscribed in mistake on the specimens referred to. 



f This plant with generic details will be figured in the ' Illustr. South 

 Amer. Plants/ plate 42 A. 



