rosacea. 497 



partially glabrate with age, the lower similarly silky on the very 

 prominent midrib and straight veins, in the intervals puberulent or 

 glabrate. Peduncle scape-like, naked, slightly pubescent, in fruit 2 

 inches long, bearing a globose head of scarcely more than 2 lines 

 in diameter. Bractlets obovate-spatulate, sparingly pilose-ciliate at 

 the apex. Fruiting calyx glabrous, obconical; its small lobes oval, 

 thickish, shorter than the four spine-like short aions, which are 

 minutely glochidiate at the apex, and hardly as long as the fruit. 



6. ACLENA MTRIOPHYLLA, Lindl. 



Accena myriophylla, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1271 ; Hook. & Am. in Bot. Misc. 



Hab. Chili; in the Andes above Santiago. (Without flowers or 

 fruit.) — Probably only a form of A. pinnatifida. 



7. Ac^na trifida, Ruiz & Pan. 



Accena trifida, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 67, t. 104 j Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 292. 



Hab. Chili ; common near Valparaiso. 



To this belongs the Californian plant, referred to A. pinnatifida by 

 Hooker & Arnott, and Torrey & Gray. 



8. Accena splendens, Hook. & Am. 



Accena splendens, Hook. & Am. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 386 j Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 292. 



Hab. Chili ; on the first Cordillera above Santiago. (The flowers 

 and fruit fallen.) 



9. Accena lappacea, Ruiz & Pav. 



Acsena lappacea, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 66, t. 103. 



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