portulacacEjE. 143 



The stems are said to attain the height of three feet, and the leaves 

 are rather ovate or obovate than lanceolate-spatulate. The flowers 

 are large and red-purple. 



2. Calandrina arenaria, Cham. 

 Hab. Environs of Valparaiso. (Destitute of flowers and fruit.) 



3. Calandrinia biflora, Meyen. 



Calandrinia hijlora, Meyen, Kiese, 1, p. 349; Walp. Rel. Meyen, p. 340. 



G. acuta, Meyen, MSS. in Herb. ips. et Hook. 



C. Gayana, Barneoud, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 503 ? 



Var. GLANDULOSA: caidibus floriferis foliisque acutis glandulosis; sepalis 

 basi parce echinatis hirto-glandulosis. 



Hab. Andes of Chili, on the first Cordillera above Santiago. 



The specimens are in fruit only, and with the capsules dehiscent. 

 Steins or branches 2 or 3 inches long, from a procumbent and slender, 

 perhaps lignescent base, slender, minutely glandular, as well as the 

 leaves. The latter are only from 4 to 6 lines long, rather lanceolate 

 than linear, acute, attenuate at the base, about a line wide ; those at 

 the base clustered and often spatulate. Flowers terminal, solitary or 

 in pairs ; peduncles half an inch in length. Sepals 5 or 6 lines long, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, obscurely denticulate, or the inner one entire, 

 glandular-hispid, and beset, especially towards the base, with scattered 

 and stout glandular-roughened setce or echinate projections. Capsule 

 longer than the calyx, three-valved. Seeds (principally shed) nearly 

 smooth, inappendiculate. 



4. Calandrinia Phacosperma, DG. 



Calandrinia Phacosperma, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 359 1 {Phacosperma Peruviana, Haw. ?) 



Hab. Banos and Obrajillo, Andes of Peru. 



The specimens are too poor for exact determination. The plant is 

 allied to G. caulescens, H. B. K., but is much smaller in all its parts. 

 The subspatulate-linear leaves are sparingly hispid along the margins. 



