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shorter than the slender 'petioles; which are from an inch to 2 inches 

 in length. Stipules short, adnate to the base of the petiole, triangular- 

 subulate. Peduncles recurved or procumbent, thickish, naked, an inch 

 long, bearing 8 to 12 flowers in a head, composed of 2 or 3 closely 

 approximate verticils, at length forming a short spike. Bracts shorter 

 than the flowers, lanceolate, acute, deciduous. Calyx suhsessile, not 

 bracteolate, densely silky-hirsute j the upper lip two-parted, the loicer 

 entire. Corolla 3 lines long ; the colour not manifest. Ovary hirsute, 

 three-ovuled. Fruit not seen. — The species belongs to Agardh's tribe 

 Microphylli. 



8. Lupinus Cruckshanksii, Sp. Nov. 



L. nanus e radice perenni? gracili, subacaulis, crinito-hirsutissimus ; 

 foliolis 7-11 lineari-lanceolatis superne nunc glabratis petiolo multo 

 brevioribus; spica pluriflora foliis breviore; calyce ebracteolato, labio 

 superiore bipartito, inferiore tridenticulato. 



Hab. Alpamarca; high Andes of Peru. (Cerro Pasco, Cruck- 

 shanks, in herb. Hook.) 



A dwarf and nearly stemless species, 3 inches high, from a simple 

 and tapering, probably perennial root, all over very hirsute with long 

 and shaggy fulvous hairs. Petioles about an inch and a half in 

 length ; with the broad and acuminate-awned stipules adnate to their 

 base. Leaflets 7 to 11, linear-lanceolate, 6 to 8 lines long, much shorter 

 than the petioles, their upper surface becoming glabrate with age. Pe- 

 duncle (in flower) very short. Spike many-flowered, about an inch 

 long, rather dense, shorter than the leaves. Flowers subsessile, half an 

 inch long, exceeding the ovate and acuminate-awned bracts. The 

 corolla is said to be " purplish" in Mr. Cruckshanks' specimen. Calyx 

 not bracteolate, hirsute ; the upper lip two-parted, the lower tridenticulate, 

 or truncate. Ovary linear, hirsute, with 3 or 4 ovules. Fruit not 

 seen. 



9. Lupinus Termis, Forsk.? 



Hab. Puen Buen, New South Wales. In fruit only. Doubtless 

 introduced from Europe. 



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