128 PHANEROGAMIA. 



It would seem unlikely that an Andine Peruvian species should be 

 the same as one from Monte Video. But our specimen accords with 

 the character of Paronychia Bonariensis, having a smooth calyx, the 

 lacinise of which are tipped with slender and straight awns, &c. 

 Moreover, the Peruvian plant of Meyen's collection, here referred by 

 Walpers, appears to have been compared with a specimen commu- 

 nicated bv Poiret to the Willdenovian herbarium. 



5. Paronychia Andina, Sp. Nov. 



P. glabella; caulibus rnulticipitibus e radice lignescente depresses ccespi- 

 toso-confertis ; foliis coriaceis confertissimis ovato-oblongis enerviis 

 cymbwformibus aristulatis stipulas vix super antibus ■ floribus bracteis 

 stipularibus occultatis capitato-congestis ; calyce extus puberulo, laciniis 

 oblongis late scariosis sub apiee cucullato aristulatis. 



Hab. Banos ; Casa Cancha to Culnai and Alpamarca, in the high 

 Andes of Peru. (Also gathered in the same region by Mr. M'Lean, 

 and at Cerro Pasco by Mr. Matthews.) 



Root perennial and somewhat woody, perpendicular, 6 to 10 inches 

 long; the crown dividing into numerous, depressed, much crowded, and 

 tufted, branching stems, which are 2 or 3 inches long, a little woody 

 at the base, nearly glabrous, clothed with the oblong-lanceolate sca- 

 rious stipules, which are imbricate-crowded and much longer than the 

 internodes. Leaves thickish and coriaceous, much crowded, or almost 

 imbricated (the older ones more or less spreading), opposite, closely 

 sessile, scarcely longer than the conspicuous stipules, a line or a line and 

 a half long, ovate-oblong, more or less convex below and concave 

 above, so as to appear boat-shaped, or else involute, destitute of a cari- 

 nate midrib and of veins, minutely puberulent, or nearly glabrous, 

 somewhat ciliolate, conspicuously awn-pointed. Flowers subsessile, 

 covered by ovate and more or less connate, stipular, sil very-scar ious bracts, 

 which exceed and hide the floral leaves, forming a capitate-crowded 

 inflorescence at the summit of the branches. Calyx thin, very 

 minutely puberulent externally under a lens, deeply five-cleft; the 

 lobes oblong, equal, the greater part scarious, the cucullate apex obtuse; 

 the midrib just below the apex produced into a very short but distinct 



