110 
lies.—Guardia Argentina, half-way be- 
tween pep e Nap 
of Los 
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A 
FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA, 
to.— Near the Laguna de Ran 
Mat: gu ; 1 
Province of Valdivia, Bridges (n. 789) 
—Lessing says that t 
labrous ; 
he style is quite 
huit ut all ours were truly bi- 
A ulicina, Hook x 858. Q) Piptocarpha ezcelsa, (Hook 
mL. incan 
low El Hoyo Colo- 
rado, Andes of Mendoza, Dr. Gillies. 
PIPTOCARPHA. Hook. et Arn. 
7. 
poyphylum sa ramen foliolis e. 
o-ciliatis. 
minea 2), equaliflora, discoidea. Rachi. 
villoso-fimb brillifera, bracteolata ! bracte- 
olis perne plu- 
— eo Stylus 1 
The osculis 
prot racer agisce Achen 
eros 
m 
tre, breve, longe denseque ice: 
si, Juniores shi rerom 
a alterna, ri a, penni 
lato-venosa, nitida, adulta vob 
isang subcorneo incrassato, integer- 
rima pu to-mucronata. Petioh his- 
pido - pubescentes, supra canaliculati, 
rticulati. Flores solitarii 
, omnibusque aliis hujus "tribus 
itarum distinctum rachide pa- 
857. (1) Pi tocarpha diacanthoides, 
(Hook et i pe capitulis soli- 
hri involucri foli 
itis: — X sem omean 
Less. S 95.— Nom. vernac. Palo 
860. 
861. 
Arn.); a 
owing to the height of Ea 
thirty to sixty feet, with a girth o 
feet. Cuming (n. 328). —Jn all the t 
cimen ns we me seen, the anthers were 
Tu mperfect 
859. 
(8.) Schlechtendalia luzulefola, 
ss. ?n Lin E n. p. 93.— 
Dry dasbinte - the mouth of Rio St. 
Lucie, and Monte Video Hill, Tweedie. 
Tris. IV.—Cvsanz E. Less. Syn. p. 4. 
(1.) Centaurea Chilensis, Bert.— 
Hook. et ae in Bot. of Beech. pue 
ception, Messrs. La 
one capitulum 
(2). Centaurea Jficeen, (Hook, et 
Am.); caule suffruticoso ram moso - 
precipue albo-tomentoso, 
nocephalis siete foliis pinnae 
utrinque breviter albide floccoso- tomen- 
tosis, segmentis linearibus vel oblongis 
bris, 
ins of Entre Rios; moist 
ground on the: coast of Rio St. ' Lucie, 
Beas ee eon 
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