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three or four leaves spring, which are 3-5 lines long : the 
peduncle is 2-3 lines long, with geminate or three alternate 
spikes 3 lines apart, 1-1 4 inch long, rigidly and shortly pilose; 
the sessile flowers are 1-2 lines apart ; the sepals, | line long, 
are connate at base into a short cup, with oblong segments, 
callous at the apex, fleshy, pale green, pilose on both sides ; 
tube of corolla 1 line long, wider and pilose above, with a 
border 2 lines in diameter ; pistil the length of tube of corolla, 
with a subglobose sulcated ovary seated on a 10-lobed disk ; 
the stigma, annular at base and as broad as the ovary, six 
times as long as the style, tapering to an obtuse point, cleft 
for a quarter of its length into two obtuse segments. 
9. Cochranea filifolia,, n. sp. ; — ramosissima, ramis teretibus, 
nodosis, epidermide grisea rugiflosa tectis, striatellis ; ramulis 
altematim approximatis, subadscendentibus, glabris, juniori- 
bus papilloso-tomentosis ; foliis in axillis, plurimis, in- 
aequalibus, fasciculatis, rarius solitariis, spathulato-lineari- 
bus, parvis, crassiusculis, granuloso-rugosis, divergentibus : 
paniculis floribundis, in ramulis terminalibus, glanduloso- 
puberulis ; pedunculo bis dichotome diviso, ramis ultimis 
tenuibus, spicatifloris ; floribus sub-2-seriatis, remotiusculis, 
sessilibus ; sepalis brevibus, extus farinaceo-leprosis ; stig- 
mate imo lato, conico, profunde 2-fido, laciniis obtuse 
2-dentatis. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Hook.^ 
Coquimbo (Bridges, 1343). 
These specimens of Bridges’s collection, though under the- 
same number as C. chenopodiacea in M. de Boissier’s herba- 
rium, are specifically very distinct from it. The plant is 
everywhere covered with a resin-like minute granulation ; the 
leaves are more than twice the length and nan-ower than 
those in the species referred to : it is somewhat ericoid in its 
habit, with the young branchlets terete, fulvous, and rugulose, 
6-8 inches long, with axils 3-4 lines apart. The leaves are 
3-6 lines long, \ line broad. The peduncle of the terminal 
inflorescence is f-1 inch long, twice dichotomous, the ultimate 
branches spicated, 2 inches long, with about eight rather large 
sessile flowers, 3-4 lines apart, all forming a corymbose pani- 
cle ; the sepals are | line long, obovate, obtuse, erect, fleshy, 
covered with whitish leprous scales, glabrous within ; the tube 
of the corolla is cylindrical, 1 line long, the border being 3-4 
lines in diameter ; the ovary, subglobose, 4-grooved, is seated 
on a lobed disk ; the stigma is six times as long as the very 
short style, has a basal ring broader than the ovary, is shortly 
conical, obtuse, cleft halfway into two obtuse 2-dentate seg- 
