CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
and Valle de los "eds Andes of — 
Dr. Gillies We believe that it is 
nargyrum ; but neither of beri can be 
or | agasca 
states the leaves to be entire. The pap- 
us is paleaceo-setaceous, its rays sprink- 
led with short hairs or Por sh teeth, so 
that they may either be termed slightly 
plumose with Lagasca, or dentato-cili- 
ated with Don. We prefer the latter from 
their affinity with P. a where the 
Cu 
Dr. Gillies.—In both this feat the last, 
(as well as in the following species), the 
leaves are spinously incise-toothed, not 
pinnatifid, as WE n glo me- 
ratum has a glaucous hue; and the teeth 
of the leaves about half the breadth of obpyramidatum 
long as the whole breadth of the lim 
The capitula are not really solitary; bat 
usually, two, three, or four are approxi- 
m at the extremity of the branches 
784. (3.) Panargyrum Dos, in Ph 
Don,) spinosum, Gi on, in Phil 
Mag. (Apr. 1832.) p. 390: in Guill. 
Arch. 2. p. 466 ioperü Th Chili, Dr. 
Gillies. Los ojos de a, Bridges, 
(n. 497.)—Pentanthus of vbi (Syn. 
p. 9 is the n's section 
Piptostemma of this genus, and his P. 
aculeatus is closely allied to, if not per- 
fectly the same with, the present species. 
that the leaves are quite 
glabrous : in our plant, the old ones are 
so, but the younger ones are covered 
with a silky pubescence; there 
other difference. The upper part of the 
stem is tomentose, especially when 
TIoung. 
785. (1.) Nassauvia Cumingii, (Hook. et 
Arn.); Slauco-virens glabra, folus rec- 
tis planiusculis lanceo in- 
longo 
ME 1 nervis haud Veronam 
m E ou —N. suaveo. 
n Phil. Mag. x. 1832.) "309; ux in 
Guill Arch. 2, p. 465. (non am. 
721.)— Cordillera of Chili, Cuming (n. 
237.) Los ojos de Agua, Bridges (n 
498.) San je Nolasco, and asce 
so 
hili me Mendoza, Dr. Gillies. 
—We have not seen Dr. Gillies’ plant: 
37 
his specimens pei named by Mr D 
N. suaveolens, and are therefore boe 
bly the same with our own. 
. Nassauvia pinnigera, (Gill.); 
villoso- -pubescens, foliis ova 
latis recurvis 
pu 
p 390; in Gu 2. p. 465. 
cent to El Planchon; Andes of Mendoza; 
r. Gillies. 
787. (3.) Nassauvia revoluta, (Gill i 
pubescens, foliis ovatis revolutis spi- 
nuloso-serratis S 
o € Andes of 
Mendoza, Dr. Gillies 
ACANTHOPHYLLUM. Hook. et Arn. 
Capitulum 5-florum. Achenium erostre, 
, dense villosum 
perinihesiay pilata; æqualis, 
palei is, angustis, subconduplicatis 
ars attenuatis, apice ciliatis. Rachis 
ebracteolata, villoso-fimbrillifera. Jnvolu- 
— ribus Ac enc Met congesta, integer- 
788. (1) A. azillare, (Hook. et Arn.); 
foliis primariis subulatis trigonis basi 
cucullato o-vaginatis, secundariis fascicu- 
latis li ,Ca-. 
paas subternis.—Nassauvia | atili 1718, 
Phil. Mag. 1832. 
Apr. 
390; in Guill. Pra 4 X 465.— Td 
tilion azillare. Lj. Spr. Syst. 3. 
— San Isidro Mendoza, Dy. 
Gillies. SK ido peke veins Don's se 
cond Section of Nassauvia, L c., OF iud 
Section of Tr riptilion, (Linn. Soc. Trans. 
16. into a separate genus, to 
combining all the three into one. They 
have each a habit distinct from that of 
the others, and indeed peculiar to them- 
selves, with the rapa: of Nassauvi na. 
(N. Cumingit bearing so 
to Panargyrum glomeratum), while all 
the others eec with Caloptilion. Tri rip- 
tihon may be easily recognized by its 
glabrous achenium and pilose rachis; 
Acanthophyllum by its villous achenia 
and rachis; Nassauvia by having both 
enia rous. 
789. (1.) Triptilion spinosum, Ruiz et 
en © tine . Soc. Trans. 16. p. 
“990. a. lenan. Willd.—Nassauvia 
