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2-deiiticiilate at their apex. In Bridges’s specimen the flowers 
are paler and smaller, and the leaves narrower. 
7. CocJiranea Tiehecula, n. sp. ; — ramosissima, ramis griseis, 
creberrime ramulosis, ramulis junioribus dense sericeo- 
pubescentibus, incanis ; foliis fasciculatis, oblongo-linearibus, 
imo in petiolum angustissime spathulatis, apice rotundatis 
ant obtuse attenuatis, carnosulis, subplanis, utrinque incano- 
pilosulis, eveniis ; panicidis coiymbosis, terminalibus, 2-3- 
spicatis ; floribus majusculis, 1-serialibus ; stigmate stylo 
6-plo longiore, 2-fido, laciniis 2-denticulatis. — In Chile : 
V. s. in Jierh. Mus. Coquimbo (Bridges, sine num°.). 
This appears to be a bushy plant, with knotted branches 
3 lines thick, divided at their summit into numerous very 
close leaf-bearing ramifications, 8-10 inches long, with branch- 
lets 4-6 inches long ; the axils are 3-6 lines apart ; the leaves 
8-12 lines long, 1 line broad ; the terminal peduncle is 6 lines 
long, sometimes bearing a single spike, 2 inches long, or with 
two or three alternate spicated branches 3-4 lines apai-t, much 
shorter, bearing a few large flowers 1 line apart ; calyx 1 line 
long, cleft nearly to the base, where it is shortly cupuliform, 
with five acutely oblong segments, densely pilose on both sides; 
the tube of the corolla 1^ line long, 5-gonous, somewhat pilose 
outside, with a border 4 lines in diameter ; pistil somewhat 
longer than calyx ; stigma annular at base, six times as long 
as the style, cleft for one-third of its length into two broadish 
bidenticulate segments. 
8. Gochranea ericoidea^ n. sp. ; — ramosissima, ramis ramulis- 
que tenuissimis, divergentibus, pallidis, glabemmis aut 
molliter pubendis, axillis cupula brevissima obtusa promi- 
nula foliigera munitis ; foliis pluribus, fasciculatis, parvis, 
linearibus, sessilibus, apice caUosis, carnosulis, enerviis, 
supra pilis rigidulis, imo tuberculatis scabridulis, subtus 
costa et marginibus subrevolutis scabridule hirtellis : pani- 
culis terminalibus, pilosis, siepius geminatim spicatifloris ; 
floribus sessilibus, minoribus ; stigmate longissimo, incluso, 
2-fido, laciniis obtusis. — In Chile : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit, 
et Hooh.j Coquimbo (Bridges, 1339). 
This appears to be a low straggling shrub, with very slender 
divaricating branches, having much the habit of an A loysia ; 
the lower branches are quite smooth and bare ; the foliiferous 
branchlets are very slender, scarcely more than line in 
thickness, nodose at the axils, with a very short obtuse spine, 
produced by the persistent base of the midrib of the exterior 
leaf : out of these cupular nodes, which are 2-3 lines apart, 
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