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(including a petiole of 3 lines), 1^-2 lines broad, with very 
sinuous and undulated margins. The many approximated 
floriferous branchlets form a large corymbose head : each ter- 
minal panicle has a peduncle 4 lines long, with four alternate 
branches 3-4 lines apart, 4 lines long, each divided into two 
spikes 1^ inch long ; the sepals are 1 line long, oblong, obtuse, 
pilose outside ; the tube of the corolla is 1^ line long, with a 
border 4 lines in diameter ; the pistil is 1 line long, the stigma 
being a little longer than the style. 
4. Cochranea stenophylla ; — Heliophytum (Heliotropium) ste- 
nophyllura. Hook. & Arn. Beech. Voy. 66; DC. Prodr. ix. 
552 ; Gay^ Chile^ iv. 456 ; — caulibus erectis, longiuscuhs, 
vix flexuosis, subnudis, nodis prominulis ruderatis, supeme 
valde ramosis ; ramulis plurimis, altematim approximatis, 
divaricatis, griseis, glabris, paucifoliosis et puberulis ; 
foliis fasciculatis vel rarius solitariis, llnearibus, utrinque 
attenuatis, crassiusculis, supra breviter sparsim tuberculato- 
pilosis, subtus adpresse hirtulis : paniculis terminalibus, 
subcorymbosis, pilosis ; pedunculo ramos 3-4 alternos breves 
spicatifloros gerente; floribus majusculis, crebriter sessili- 
bus ; stigmate stylo gequllongo, imo incrassato, conico, fere 
ad basin 2-fido, laciniis 2-dentatis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit, et Hook., Coquimbo (Bridges, 1340). 
These specimens have a somewhat flexuous knotty stem, 
1 foot long, above which they throw out several close ascending 
branches, 4-10 inches long, with several divaricating branch- 
lets, at distances of 6-9 lines, and about 4 inches long. The 
leaves are 5 lines long, | line broad; the terminal peduncle, 
6-9 lines long, bears three alternate short curving spikes, each 
with about six flowers, aU forming a corymbulose head ; the 
sepals, 1| line long, ^ line broad, are linear, pilose on both 
sides ; the tube of the corolla is 2 lines long, a little swollen in 
the mouth, pilose on its angles, with a border 4 lines in dia- 
meter; the pistil is 1^ line long, the stigma as long as the 
style, cleft for nearly half its length into two obtuse segments, 
which are minutely 2-denticulated at their apex. 
The original typical specimen is not to be found in the 
Hookerian herbarium. 
5. Cochranea myosotifolia ; — Heliophytum stenophyUum, var. 
myosotifohum, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 552 ; Gay, Chile, iv. 456; 
— ramosa, ramis subtortuosis, irregulariter difiusis, crebre 
nodosis, epidermide rimoso, griseo ; ramulis teretibus, griseo- 
puberulis ; foliis in axiUis alternis, plurimis, fasciculatis, 
linearibus, imo paulo attenuatis, apice obtusulis, utrinque 
