UMBELLIFER^l. ggy 



Hab. Andes of Peru, in the neighbourhood of Obrajillo. 



This appears to be the B. palmata of Ruiz and Pavon. In one 

 specimen the fruit is mostly glabrate, when young sparingly beset 

 with sessile stellate tufts of short hairs : occasionally one or more of 

 these tufts are raised on a short pedicel or bristle ; while in another, 

 otherwise similar specimen the fruits are rather copiously beset with 

 such glochidiate bristles, often of considerable length. From the forks 

 of the stem, there is occasionally produced an abnormal fusiform 

 body, appearing like a diseased fruit, either subsessile or long-pedun- 

 cled, 4 or 5 lines long, and armed all over with long glochidiate 

 bristles. 



7. AZORELLA, Lam. 



Azorella, Lam. 111. Gen. t. 484, f. 1; Cav. Ic. t. 482, f. 2; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 77. 

 Bolax, Commers. ; Juss. Gen. p. 226; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 78; Spreng. Uinb. p. 33. 

 Fragosa, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. Prodr. p. 43. 

 Ciiamitis, Banks & Soland. ined.; Gaertn. Fruct. 1, p. 94, t. 22. 

 Pectophytum, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 5, p. 28, t. 425. 



Pozoa, subgen. Schizeilema, Hook. Fl. Antarc. p. 15, t. 11, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 85, 

 t. 18. 



It appears to me that Sprengel was quite right in uniting Bolax 

 and Azorella, both names probably imposed by Commerson, but the 

 latter first published. The types of the two genera were also viewed 

 as one (Chamitu) by Banks and Solander, as also by Cavanilles. 

 Their habit is the same : A. Selago, indeed, closely resembles Bolax 

 glebaria; and the difference in their fruit is perhaps not greater than 

 between some species of Azorella proper. Moreover, an Andine 

 Chilian species (A. madreporica) , having the thickened margins of the 

 mericarps more or less recurved, often as much so as in some fruits 

 of Bolax glebaria, manifestly combines the two genera. The entire 

 absence of teeth to the calyx will barely distinguish Pectophytum, 

 H. B. K., as a section of this genus; the limb being obsolete in Bolax. 

 Dr. Hooker has fully noticed the similarity of the fruit of his Pozoa, 

 subgen. Schizeilema to Azorella, and has until lately retained A. Banun- 

 culus in this genus : in finally excluding it, and referring it, along 



175 



