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CHILI. 



[Leguminosm. 



9. VICIA. Town. 



1. V. nigricans; pubescens, caule tetragono, foliolis 9-10 oblongo-ellipticis obtusis 

 alternis, cirrhis divisis, stipulis semisagittatis, pedunculis folio duplo longioribus multifloris, 

 floribus confertis, calycis dentibus 2 superioribus subnullis inferioribus subulatis, medio 

 elongato tubum superante, stigmate barbato. 



Hab. Conception. — This seems to be a long- straggling- plant, which always turns black in drying, like 

 Orobus niger. The leaflets are rather more than an inch long ; the flowers almost capitate. 



2. V. parvifora; parce pilosa, foliolis 3-4-jugis anguste linearibus acuminatis, cirrhis 

 subsimplicibus, stipulis semisagittato-linearibus integris, pedunculis folio brevioribus 

 bifloris, calyce brevi-campanulato dentibus lanceolatis tubum sequantibus, corolla glabra, 

 leguminibus 6-spermis lanceolatis compressis, suturis pilosis. 



Hab. Conception. — This species is closely allied in habit to Ervum tetraspermum, and has an equally 

 small flower : but the shape of the legumen is very different, and the stigma is that of a Vicia. 



3. V. linear if olia ; tota pilosa, caule angulato, foliolis 5-jugis linearibus retusis, cirrhis 

 subsimplicibus, stipulis latiusculis semisagittatis basi dentatis impunctatis, floribus subses- 

 silibus solitariis, calyce campanulato villoso dentibus subulatis subaequalibus, corolla 

 glabra, legumine hirsute. 



Hab. Conception. — In some respects this approaches Vicia Michauxii, Spr., but there is no species 

 with which it quite coincides in character. The flowers are not half the size of those of Vicia sativa, with 

 some of the narrow-leaved varieties of which it coincides in other respects. 



10. LATHYEUS. Linn. 

 1. L. sessilifolius ; glaber nigricans, caule angulato vix alato, foliis unijugis petiolo 

 perbrevi cirrhifero, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis stipula semisagittato-ovata petiolum qua- 



Hab. Valparaiso. Mr. Bridges. 

 Sect. II. Perennes herbacece, racemi longissimi aphylli terminates paniculati. — Habitus Onohrychidis. — Hue forsan A. 

 dentata, bicolor, pendula et punctata. De Cand., at de duratione nihil prostat ; certe tamen A. papposa, atquc 

 longiseta. 



3. A. conferta ; adscendens pubescens, foliolis C-jugis obovato-oblongis retusis cum mucrone versus petioli apicem 

 approximatis, racenuo terminali composito nigro-glanduloso inultifloro, pedicellis fructiferis deflexis, calycis laciniis 

 ovatis, legumine 3-4j-articulato muricato glanduloso. 



Hah. Chili. Mr. Cruchshanks. 

 Sect. III. Caules fruticosi spinescentes. — Hue A. microphylla et glutinosa, q,uaedaun(|ue species inedita?, in ascensu 



orientali Andium a Mendoza ad jugum " Uspallata " lectae. 



Sect. IV. Fruticoscc inermes. — Habitus Zuccagnice. 



4>. A. halsainica ; glandulis resinnsis dense obsita, caule ramosissimo, foliis sub 10-jugis cuneato-oblongis saepissiine 

 cum impari, legumine 6-articulato (juniore) sericeo. — Bertero in Ann. des Sc. — Mimosa balsamica. Molin. Chil. 



Hab. Chili. Mr. Cruchshanks. West side of La Cuesta de la Dormida, in Chili. Dr. Gillies. — This is called in 

 Chili " Jarilla." Dr. Gillies informs us that Molina refers to this plant in his History of Chili, vol. i. p. 134, 

 Engl, ed., where he calls it Mimosa halsamica ; and Bertero, in a letter published in the Bulletin des Sciences Natu- 

 rales, for 1830, names it Adesmia balsamica. His appellation we therefore adopt. The plant, besides being of great 

 beauty, yields a balsam of a highly agreeable odour, which is perceptible at a great distance, and is found to be of 

 much efficacy in healing wounds. 



