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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
adpresse scabrido-pilosis, marginibus subrevolutls ; inflores- 
centia terminali, pubescente ; pedunculo 2-fido, in ramos di- 
cliotome spicatifloros diviso ; floribus crebriter sessilibus ; 
stigmate stylo brevissimo 8-plo longiore, imo incrassato, 
sursum acutissime conico, ad medium 2-lisso, laciniis sub- 
setaceis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit.^ Coquimbo 
(Bridges, 1338). 
This appears to be a low straggling shrab, with irregularly 
spreading branches covered with a glabrous splitting epidermis; 
the lower ones are knotty, with prominent leafless nodes ; the 
upper branches are terete and pubescent, with axils 2-6 lines 
apart. The leaves are 8 lines long, 1 line broad ; the peduncle 
of the tenninal inflorescence is 9 lines long, its branches 3-41ine3 
long, each bearing two short spikes, all forming a corymbose 
licad ; the sepals are 2 lines long, acutely linear, pilose on 
l)oth sides; the tube of the corolla is If line long, somewhat 
larger about the mouth, and pilose outside, with a border 
3i lines in diameter, with five radiating, broad, coloured 
nervures ; anthers 1 line long, reaching the mouth; pistil 
line long, the ovary, style, and stigma being in the proportions 
of 3:1: 8. 
6. Cockranea jiorida ; — Ileliophytum floridum, A. DC. Prodr. 
ix. 553 ; — Heliotropium floridum, Chile., iv. 457 ; — 
e basi ramosissima, ramis subangulatis, ramulisque crebris, 
rufescentibus, glabris ; foliis linearibus, obtusis, imo angus- 
tissime spathulatis, planis aut marginibus vix revolutis, 
utrinque subrugidosis, fere glabris aut versus margines ob- 
solete pilosis : paniculis terminalibus, corymbosis, 1-3-ra- 
mosis, ramis spicatifloris ; floribus sessilibus, majusculis ; 
stigmate stylo fere mquilongo, imo annulato, apice 2-fisso, 
laciniis 2-dentatis. — In Chile : v.s. in herb. Hook., Coquimbo 
(Cuming, 858 ; Bridges, sine nuni°.) ; ex Mus. Paris. (Gay). 
A low-growing shrub, with suberect or decumbent stems, 
with ascending, very approximated branches, covered with a 
lax, reddish, shining epidermis ; leaves 8-10 lines long, 1-H 
line broad, decurrent on a petiole of one-fourth their length; 
peduncle of terminal inflorescence 1 inch long; its branches, 3 
or 4 lines apart, are bare at base, spicated imilaterally, with 
few sessile flowers ; the acutely lanceolate sepals, pilose on 
both sides, are 2^ lines long ; the tube of the corolla is penta- 
gonous, glabrous, 3 lines long, the expanded border 5 lines in 
diameter ; the stamens occupy the upper half of the tube ; the 
pistil is 24 lines long ; the conical stigma, annular at base, is 
i left for one-third or one-fourth of its length into two segments, 
