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CHILI. 



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druplo superante multoties longioribus, pedunculis folio duplo longioribus subquinque- 

 floris, calyce campanulato nervoso dentibus subagqualibus. 



Hab. Conception. — Closely allied on one hand to L. sylvestris, and on the other to L. pratensis, but 

 distinguishable by the above characters. From L, magdlanicus, Lam., it seems to differ principally in the 

 shape of its leaflets. 



2. L. pubescens ; superne molliter pubescens, caule alato, foliis cirrbosis unijugis, foliolis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis petiolum duplo superantibus, stipulis semisagittato-ovatis petiolo sub- 

 dimidio brevioribus, pedunculis folio longioribus multifloris, calyce tubuloso pubescente 

 dentibus lanceolatis. 



Hab. Conception. — This has many points in common with L. sylvestris ; but the latter is never pubes- 

 cent. It is found at Valparaiso by Mr. Bridges and Mr. Macrae, and in the islands in the Parana River, 

 on the Eastern side of the Andes, by Mr. Baird. Besides these two in the collection, we have another fine 

 species of Lathyrus from Conception, gathered by Mr. Macrae, and in Valparaiso by Mr. Bridges and Mr. 

 Cruckshanks. It belongs to a groupe with many leaflets and many flowers, but is easily distinguished from 

 them all by the smallness of its stipules. It may be thus named and characterized : L. Macrcei ; pilosius- 

 culus, caule angulato, foliolis sub G-jugis ellipticis retusis penninerviis reticulatim venosis subtus albido sub- 

 pellucidoque-punetatis, stipulis parvis semisagittatis integerrimis, pedunculis miiltilloris folio longioribus, 

 calycis lacinia inferior] longissima subulata, superioribus brevissimis, stylo linear! utrinque, sed supra 

 prsecipue, piloso. 



11. LUPINUS. Town. 



1. L. microcarpus ; floribus verticillatis sessilibus bracteolatis, calycis labio superiore 

 brevissimo emarginato, inferiore 3-dentato, bracteis reflexis, foliolis oblongo-linearibus, 

 leguminibus rhombeis dispermis hirsutis. DC. — Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2413. De Cand. 

 Prodr. v. 1. p. 408. 



Hab. Conception. 



12. ACACIA. Neck. Willd. 

 1. A. Cavenia ; spinis stipularibus seniiuncialibus geminatis rectis, petiolis inermibus 

 obscure uniglandulosis, pinnis subquinquejugis, foliolis (minutis) 9-10-jugis lineari-oblon- 

 gis pubescenti-scabris, pedunculis axillaribus aggregatis simj)licibus, capitulis globosis, 

 floribus polyandris. — Mimosa Cavenia. Molin. Chil. 



Hab. Valparaiso. — Of this we have no fruit, and but one very small and imperfect specimen in flower 

 exists in the collection. It is, however, the same with an Acacia we have received from Valparaiso, gathered 

 by Mr. Bridges, of which he observes that the blossom is called " Flor de Aroma, and the tree Espino by the 

 inhabitants, that it is used for various purposes, especially for yielding the best charcoal, that the fragrance 

 of the flowers is very great, being perceptible at a considerable distance, and that immense tracts of laud 

 near Talca are completely covered with the tree." Again, Dr. Gillies has the same plant from a garden at 

 Buenos Ayres, and remarks that " it is identical, to all appearance, with the Espino of Chili, which is 

 upwards of twenty feet in height." Thus, it would seem to be an important and well-known plant in 

 Chili ; yet we do not find it any where noticed, except by Molina, who calls it Mimosa Cavenia. Its 

 nearest affinity is with the A. revoluta of Kunth, (Mimos. t. 26,) but there the spines are larger and 

 stouter, the pinna? of m\\y 3 pairs, and the flowers decandrous. It is also closely allied to A. eburnea, 

 Linn. Unfortunately we have no fruit on any of our specimens. There is a small sessile gland beneath the 

 lower pair of leaflets, which is, however, very obscure in Mr. Bridges' specimens. The flowers are yellow. 

 It is now cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, "from seeds sent by Mr. Cruckshanks, but has not 

 yet blossomed. 



