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CONTEIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
dichotome divisis, ultimis tenerrimis, unilateraliter spicati- 
floris ; floribus majusculis, inferioribus breviter pedicellatis, 
reliquis sessilibus ; sepalis lanceolatis ; stigmate stylo sequi- 
longo, conico, fere ad basin 2-fisso, laciniis subulatis, ob- 
tusulis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Hook.^ Co- 
quimbo (Bridges, 1341). 
This species is at once distinguished from all the others by 
its much larger, flat, submembranaceous leaves. It seems to be 
a low-growing shrub with ascending branches, with branchlets 
3-4 lines apart, which are subangular, subcompressed, 4—6 
inches long, with axils 4-6 lines apart, which are somewhat 
nodose ; the leaves (including the petiole, 7 lines long and 
1 line broad) are 2 inches long, 3-3| lines broad, the narrow 
j)etiole being somewhat enlarged at its insertion upon the 
node ; within this, three or four shorter leaves are fasciculated 
in each axil ; they are all nearly glabrous. The terminal 
peduncle is 4 inches long, bearing at intervals of 3 to 9 lines 
several branches 6-12 lines long, each divided into two uni- 
lateral spikes 1| inch long, bearing sessile flowers 2 lines apart; 
tlie sepals, almost glabrous outside, are pubescent within and 
on the margins, are 2 lines long, acutely lanceolate ; the tube 
of the corolla is 3 lines long, \ line broad, with a border 5 lines 
in diameter ; the anthers, 1 line long, are inserted 1^ line above 
the base ; the pistil is the length of the sepals, the style being 
rather longer than the stigma, and twice the length of the 
ovary. 
3. Cochranea sinuata^ n. sp. ; — subdichotome et tortuose ramo- 
sissima, ramis ramulisque glabris, epidermide laxa fusca 
rimosa vestitis, junioribus pilosulis ; foliis in axillis plurimis, 
fasciculatis, linearibus, apice rotundatis, imo in petiolum 
angustum longe spathulatis, marginibus undulato-sinuatis, 
saepe subrevolutis, submembranaceis, supra rugulosis, in 
nervis impresso-sulcatis, obsolete pilosis, subtus palli- 
dioribus, plus minusve cano-pilosis : paniculis terminahbus, 
subcorymbosis, alternatim ramosis, ramis geminatim divisis 
et spicatifloris ; stigmate stylo paulo longiore, imo annulato, 
conico, granulatim viscoso, ad medium 2-fisso, laciniis 2- 
denticulatis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb, Mus. Brit..^ Coquimbo 
(Bridges, sine num°.) ; in herb. Hook.^ Coquimbo (Bridges, 
1342). 
This is evidently a low-growing shrub, with erect branches, 
Avhich, in the lower portions, are nearly bare of leaves, very 
rough, with tortuous branchlets again divided, the younger 
ones being 5 or 6 inches long. The leaves are 9-14 lines long 
