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4. Azorella Selago, Hooh. f 



Azorella Selago, Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 284, t. 99. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia ; on the tops of mountains. 

 5. Azorella monanthos, Clos? 



Azorella monanthos, Clos, in Gray, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 79 ? 



Hab. On the Andes of Chili, above Santiago. (Without flowers or 

 fruit.) 



6. Azorella apoda, Sp. Nov. 



A. dense ccespitosa; foliis arctissime imbricatis basi vaginantibus apice 

 svbspatulato crassis tricing ulato-subulat is pungent i-mucronidatis glabris, 

 floralibus basi filamentosis ; umbella bi-quadriflora sessili; floribua 

 fructibusque subsessiUbus folia haud superantibus ; calyce glaberrimo, 

 dentibus brevissimis obtusis; mericarpiis utriculosis dorso subcom- 

 pressis. 



Hab. Andes of Chili, above Santiago, not far from the snow-line. 



The plant forms very compact tufts, from an inch to 3 inches high ; 

 the stems (2 or 3 lines thick) covered with very densely imbricated 

 leaves, with appressed sheathing bases; their upper and slightly dilated 

 portion, or limb, triangular-subulate, or oblong, H or 2 lines in length, 

 glabrous, very thick, mostly obtuse, but ptungenily nmcronulate ; those 

 next the flowers filamentose at the base inside. Involucre of 2 to 4 

 small and scarious leaves, their dilated bases somewhat united and 

 filamentose. Umbel sessile even in fruit, of 2 to 4 rather large 

 flowers ; the pedicels very short, not so long as the ovary, so that the 

 flowers are not protruded beyond the leaves, but barely equal them in 

 length. Calyx-tube wholly glabrous, utricular; the 5 teeth very short 

 and obtuse, persistent. Petals oblong, plane. Stylopodium large. 



