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accreta. Receptaculum convexiusculum, carnosum ; palea 
magnse, foliacese, inter flores onustse, nonnullse liberse, spathu- 
latse, plerseque ovatse, carnosulfe, involucre sequilongse, imo 
latae, marginibus usque ad medium mutuo concretis in verti- 
cilla 3^ subconcentrica coalitae, istis e septis plurimis inter- 
jectis in nidulos multos tubseformes 3-4-seriales constitutis : 
hoc mode transmutatse, per totum receptaculum sparsse, et 
imo eo arete accretse ; flores in singulo nidulo 3-4 imo insiti, 
plerique fertiles, 5-meri, rarius abortu 4-meri. Calycis tubus, 
ovario adnatus, margine discrete 5-dentato, dentibus aequali- 
bus, ellipticis, acutis, erectis, carnosulis. Corolla regularis, 
infundibuliformis, tube graedi longo, limbo 5-lobo; lobis 
oblongis, obtusiusculis, apice crassioribus et macula fusca 
notatis, 3-nerviis. Stamina 5, inclusa ; filamenta brevissima, 
imo in annulum monadelphum constrictioni tubi insertum coa- 
lita, superne libera, et introrsum arcuata : anthera inferne syn- 
genesse, et breviter sagittatse, apice liberse, connective crasso 
dorsali filamento continue affixse. Ovarium obovatum, ultra 
medium ad calycem accretum, apice liberum, conicum, 1-locu- 
lare, 1-ovulatum. Stylus filiformis, longe exsertus, apice 
incrassato-cylindraceus. Stigma minimum, globosum, papil- 
loso-rugosum. Achsenium ignotum. 
Herbse Chilenses, Andicolm, caspitosce, acaules, rbizomate elon- 
gato, repente stolonifero, colies plurimos intersistentes folii- 
feros emittente ; folia subradicalia, congesta, lineari-spathulata, 
integerrima, carnosa ; scapi pauci, monocephali, folio longiores, 
scepius nudi, rarius foliis 1-3 supra medium donati, teretes, 
carnosi; capitulum hemisphcericum, carnosum. 
1. Gamocarpha Poppigii, DC. Prodr. v. 2; Remy in Gay, Chile, 
iii. 247; Weddell, Chi. And. ii. 8; — Boopis alpina, Popp. 
Nov. Gen. i. 21, tab. 33; Lessing, Linn. vi. 258; — acaulis, 
foliis subradicalibus, confertis, obovato-ellipticis, apice mucro- 
natis, integris, carnosis, margine cartilagineis, glaberrimis, 
enerviis, in petiolum angustum canaliculatum fere sequi- 
longum attenuatis, scapis 2-3, folio 3-plo longioribus, ssepius 
aphyllis. — In Andibus Chilensibus : Cordillera de Concepcion 
ad Antuco, altit. 6500 ped. ; Cordillera de Concepcion (Gay), 
in herb. Mus. Paris . ; v. s. 
Radix horizontaliter humifusus, pedalis et ultra, colla plura 
intermpta subacaulia, squamis imbricatis tecta, 5 hn. long. 
3 lin. diam. emittens; folia e collo numerosa, pluriserialia, 
subradicalia, imbricatim conferta, (incluso petiole 2-4 lin.) 
6-10 lin. longa, 2-3 lin. lata, vernatione conduplicata : scapi 
2-3, erecti, teretes, 2 poU. longi, saepius nudi, interdum versus 
apicem folia 2 brevia subopposita gerentes, monocephali ; 
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