CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 131 



Hab. Feejee Islands; common in cultivated grounds, at Ovolau, 

 Muthuata, and Sandal-wood Bay. 



The specimens are intermediate between the original M. striata of 

 Linnaeus and the M. triphylla of Loureiro. 



17. COLOBANTHUS, Bartl 



1. COLOBANTHUS MUSCOIDES, Hooh. f. 



Colobanthus muscoides, Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 14; Walp. Repert. 5, p. 788. 



Hab. Auckland Islands ; collected only by Dr. Holmes. 



This species and the next, from their fleshy character, have quite 

 the aspect of Portidacacece, to which Fenzl refers the whole tribe of 

 Molluginece, on account of the position of their stamens. G. muscoides 

 grows in large and very compact, moss-like tufts. 



2. COLOBANTHUS CRASSIFOLIUS, Hook. f. 



Colobanthus crassifolias, Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 248 ; Homb. & Jacquinot, Bot. Voy. 



Pol. Sud. Phanerog. t. 17. 

 C. Quitensis & C. sayinoides, Bartl. in Presl. Bel. Hsenk. 2, p. 13, t. 49 (excl. syn. 



H. B. K.) 

 Sagina crassifolia, D'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 4, p. 617; Graud. Bot. Voy. 



Freyc. p. 137. 



Var. (3. caulibus hrevissimis dense ccespitosis; capsula malum calycem 

 superante. 



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Colobanthus aretioides, G-illies, in Hook. & Am. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 336. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; where it is very abundant. Casa 

 Cancha, Andes of Peru. Var. (3. Cordilleras above Santiago, Chili. 



I see no difference between the specimen from the high Andes of 

 Peru, at Casa Cancha, and the more condensed states of the species 



