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? (No. 2). A low shrub; leaves large, broad-ovate, obtuse, crenately dentate, 



glaucous beneath ; capsule large, red, four-valved. To the Northward of Valparaiso. 

 Condalia? (No. 3) ; compare North Patagonia. A shrub, six feet high, having the habit 



of Ligustrum ; leaves oblong, obtuse ; berry one-seeded. From the mountain-ridge 



beyond Casa Blanca to Santiago, and beyond. 

 Colletia (No. 1). Leafless, but full of green spines ; the flowers solitary, or in pairs. 



Frequent on the barren upland, in the environs of Valparaiso, and elsewhere. 

 ; perhaps not distinct from No. 1. Leaves attenuate at base; the fruit hairy. 



In the environs of Valparaiso. 

 (No. 2). Leaves broad at base, round-ovate ; the flowers clustered. On the basal 



portion of the Andes. 



? (No. 3); compare Retanilla obcordata of Dec. Opposite spines; leaves pube- 

 scent, entire, obtuse. Towards the Middle mountain-region of the Andes. 



(Lithraea) caustica, (No. 1) ; Rhus ? of Hook. The fruit compressed, but not fleshy. 

 A shrub, six to twelve feet high ; the leaves oblong, entire, obtuse, resembling those 

 of Rhus cotinus, and entirely smooth. Frequent on the basal portion of the Andes ; 

 where contact with it brought on the same sort of cutaneous eruption I have experi- 

 enced from our R. venenata. 



; perhaps a second species. Pubescent; compare Mauria simplicifolia of Kunth. 



Frequent in the environs of Valparaiso. 



Duvaua? (No. 1). A large shrub; strong-scented; the leaves simple and dentate; 

 calyx 4-fid; petals four; stamens eight; berry one-seeded. Environs of Valparaiso, 

 and elsewhere. 



? ; perhaps not distinct from the preceding, but the twigs pubescent. A large 



shrub, or from the size of the trunk, a low tree ; at Villa la Mar, seen twenty feet high 

 with the trunk three feet in diameter. Environs of Valparaiso, and elsewhere. 



Lupinus microcarpus ? (No. 25) ; see Sims, 2413. Environs of Valparaiso. 



(Hosackia? No. 15; compare) Lotus subpinnatus of Lagasca. Mountain-ravines to the 

 Southward of Valparaiso. 



Psoralea glandulosa, (No. 12). A shrub, six to ten feet high. Environs of Valparaiso; 

 frequent at the outlet of valleys, near the level of the sea. 



Coursetia ? (No. 1). SufFruticose, upright, five to six feet high ; leaflets in nine pairs ; pod 

 two-seeded. In mountain ravines in the neighborhood of Valparaiso. 



?; perhaps distinct from the preceding. Smooth. 



? (No. 2). Lanate ; flowers and fruit not seen. Maritime ; growing on the sands 



of the sea-shore. 



Astragalus (No. 17; perhaps a congener of our Phaca villosa). Procumbent ; the leaflets 

 obcordate, or at least very obtuse ; no signs of flowers or fruit. Found by Mr. Bracken- 

 ridge. 



? (No. 18 ; perhaps a congener of our Phaca villosa). Procumbent, tomentose. 



From Coracovi to the Andes. 



Geranium. Compare G. diff'usum ; but the flowers purple. The stem sometimes scan- 

 dent or subscandent; the flowers small. From Valparaiso to the Andes. (Accord- 

 ing to Gray, in his published Volume, shown by the specimen to be G. dissectum of 

 Europe). 



