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ments : the fruit, consisting of two nuts enclosed in the persis- 
tent calyx, is polished and glabrous. 
10. Cochranea Mspidula, n. sp. ; — crebre ramosissima, ramis 
subrugoso-striatis, ramulis subdivergentibus, teretibus, bran- 
neis, pilosis ; foliis fasciculatis, sessilibus, spathulato-lineari- 
bus, obtusis, marginibus valde revolutis, camosulis, fusco- 
viridibus, undique hispidulis ; paniculis in ramulis termi- 
nalibus, brevibus, bis dichotome divisis, pubescentibus ; 
ramis ultimis 2-seriatim spicatifloris ; floribus paucis, crebris, 
sessihbus ; stigmate stylo 6-plo longiore, apice 2-fido, laci- 
niis 2-dentatis. — In Chile boreali : v. s. in Jierh. Hook. 
(Lobb, 440). 
This is evidently a low-growing shrub, with extremely 
crowded, elongated branchlets, 3-4 lines apart, 8 or 9 inches 
long, the lower ones again branching, the upper ones simple : 
the axils are 3 lines apart ; the leaves are 4-6 lines long, | line 
broad. The peduncle of the inflorescence is 6 lines long, its 
branches 6 lines long, their ultimate 2- or 3-spicated branch- 
lets being 9 Lines long ; the calyx is tubular, cleft halfway into 
five erect teeth, is pubescent on both sides, 1 line long ; the 
tube of the coroUa is 1 line long, pubescent outside, with a 
border 2 lines in diameter ; the pistil is 1 line long ; the stigma, 
eight times the length of the style, annular at base, slenderly 
conical, cleft for a quarter of its length into two bidentate 
segments. 
11. Cochranea chenopodiacea] — Hehophytum chenopodiaceum, 
A. DC. Prodr. ix. 553; — Heliotropium chenopodiaceum. 
Gay, Chile, iv. 458 ; — nana, divaricato-ramosissima, gla- 
bella ; ramulis subrigidis, teretibus, flavidulis, junioribus 
obsolete puberulis ; axilhs cupula prominente munitis ; foliis 
fasciculatis, parvis, spathulato-hnearibus, subteretibus, mar- 
ginibus valde revolutis, carnosuhs, fere sessilibus, glabris 
vel subviscosis : paniculis terminalibus, bis dichotome di- 
visis, ramis ultimis tenuibus, spicatifloris ; floribus paucis, 
sessilibus, pallide CEeruleis ; calyce tubuloso, 5-dentato, extus 
pilosido ; stigmate stylo 2-plo longiore, apice obtuso, breviter 
bifido. — In Chile : v. s. in herb. Hook, ex Mus. Paris., prov. 
Copiapo, ad montes Arqueros (Gay). 
This plant was found by Gay in the more northerly pro- 
vince of Copiapo, in the silver-mining district of Arqueros, 
and is distinct from the plant I have referred to C.filifolia, 
which has been confounded with it. Gay says it is a low 
shrub, not more than a foot high, with many short stiff spread- 
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