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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
subglobosum, 4-sulcatum, 4-loculare, loculis ovulo solitario 
suspense munitis : stylus teres, superne paulo incrassatus ; 
stigma inclusum, valde elongatum, imo annulo crasso cinc- 
tuin, sursum attenuatum, plus minusve profunde 2-fissuin, 
laciniis subulatis, integris, vel 2-denticulatls. Fructus ex- 
succus, globosus, profunde 2-sulcatus, calyce persistente in- 
clusus ; nuculoe 2, semiglobosge, marginibus rotundatis, facie 
subplana, foraminulo obsolete incavatfe, ossege, singulae 2- 
loculares, loculis 1-spermis. Semen ovatum, apice suspen- 
sum ; integumenta \ parcum, carnosum; 
embryo orthotropus, cotyledonibus ovatis, subcompressis, 
camosulis, radicula tereti ad sunimum spectante duplo lon- 
gioribus. 
Suffrutices Chilenses, dumosi, odore balsamico scatentes^ ra- 
mosi ; ramis scepe virgatis, valde foliosis ; folia in axillis 
alternis plurima, fasciculata, scepius anguste lineares^ mar- 
ginibus interdum valde revolutis : panicula terminalis, pri- 
mum subcapitata^ demum expansa^ valde ramosa, ramis bre- 
viter divisis et spicatijloris ; flores 1-laterales^ sessiles 
ebracteati. 
1. Cochranea conferta^ nob. Trav. Chile, ii. 529; — Heliopliytum 
stenophyllum, var. rosmarinifolium, DC. Prodr. ix. 552 ; 
Gay^ Chile., iv. 456 ; — ramis strictiusculis, erectls, breviter 
pauciramulosis, in junioribus viscoso-pilosulis, demum 
glabris, confertissime imbricatim foliosis ; foliis in axillis 
alternis, plmamis et fasciculatis, anguste linearibus, imo 
spathulatis, sessilibus, marginibus valde revolutis, supra 
subrugulosis, glabris aut obsolete puberulis, subtus parce 
rigido-pilosis : paniculis terminalibus, corymbosis ; ramis 
alternis 3^, spicas plurimas altemas gerentibus ; floribus 
sessilibus, uniserialibus ; stigmate stylo 2-plo longiore, fere 
ad medium 2-fido, laciniis subulatis, obtusulis. — In Chile : 
V. V. ad Cuesta larga de Llaillay ; v. s. in herb, variis (Cu- 
ming, 377 ; Bridges, 235) ; in herb. Hook., Coquimbo 
(Harvey), ex Mus. Paris. Chile (Gray). 
I found this plant in 1822 in the province of Quillota, where 
it is frequent upon the lofty hills, fonning a bushy shrub from 
.3 to 5 feet in height. Its erect branches are densely covered 
with crowded, imbricated leaves, fasciculated in the approxi- 
mated axils ; they are 14-18 lines long, ^ line broad. The 
terminal inflorescenee, when fully developed, has a main 
peduncle 1^-2 inches long, bractless, expanding into three or 
four alternate branchlets, 9 lines long, divided into three or 
four others bearing many crowded sessile flowers arranged 
unilaterally in a spike; the sepals are Ij line long, obtusely 
