CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



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awn, which is hardly a quarter of the length of the lobe. Petals, or 

 staminodia, 5, setaceous, shorter than the sepals, a little longer than 

 the 5 stamens. Style two-parted; the lobes slender. Ovary, seed, 

 &c, as in the genus. 



This appears to be a common species in that part of the Peruvian 

 Andes which was visited by the Naturalists of the Expedition. 

 It extends from Banos, which is only 10,000 feet above the sea-level, 

 to the limit of vegetation above Alpamarca. It varies somewhat in 

 form ; the specimens from the higher regions being more condensed, 

 and exhibiting almost the aspect of a Colobanthus. I do not find that 

 it has before been described, nor do I know of any species with which 

 it may be particularly compared. 



6. Paronychia ramosissima, DC. 



Paronychia (AcanthonycMa) ramosissima, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 372, & Mem. Paronyc. 



t. 4j St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 188; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1, p. 172. 

 Pentacxna polycnemoides, Bartl. in Presl. Rel. Hasnk. 2, p. 5, t. 49 ; Walp. Repert. 



1, p. 261. 

 P. ramosissima, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 338 ; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 523. 



Hab. Valparaiso, Chili. Eio Negro, North Patagonia. 



The inequality of the sepals, unsupported by other characters, 

 hardly entitles this plant to the rank of a genus. The leaves are not 

 alternate, as is said by Fenzl (in Endlicher's Genera), but uniformly 

 opposite. 



Subord. IY. SCLERANTHE^E. 



15. MNIARUM, Forst 

 1. Mniarum biflorum, Forst. 



Mniarum biflorum, Forst. Char. Gen. 1, t. 1 ; R. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 413 : 

 DC. Prodr. 3, p. 378; Raoul, Enuni. PL Nov. Zel. p. 43. 



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