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Suppl. ii. 364, tab. 921 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 512 ; — sufFruticosa, 
e basi ramosa, ramis adscendentibus, ramulisque tenuibus, 
subvirgatis, glabris, substi'iatis ; foliis alternis, sessilibus, 
imo longe cuneatis, apice latioribus et 3-dentatis, dentibus 
sequalibus, acutis, majusculis, lateralibus incurvatim arrectis, 
mediano recurvatim deflexo, crasso-coriaceis, enerviis, supra 
glabris, opacis, subtus tuberculis crjstallinis setigeris sca- 
bridis, sessilibus, e basi refractis ; floribus solitariis, pedicel- 
latis, ssepius terminalibus, rarius axillaribus ; calyce extus 
hispido-pubescente, intus densissime albido-sericeo-piloso, 
ore dentibus 12-15 munito ; appendicibus 5, quarum 1-2 
tubum sequaut ; corolla glabra, tubo in media angustiore, 
limbo expanso, usque ad basin 5-partito, lobis ovato-oblongis, 
rotundatis ; filamentis imo dilatatis, paulo sub faucem affixis, 
longe exsertis j antheris oscillatoriis ; ovario glabro, imo 
distincte stipitato ; stylo 2-fido, ramis divaricatis dimidio 
brevioribus ; stigmatibus subcapitatis, glanduloso-rugosis ; 
drupa nigra, nitida, calyce cupuliformi semivestita. — In 
prov. Mendozse ad Corocorto, et alios locos in humidulis 
salitrosis : v. v. et s. in herb, meo et Hooh.^ he. ciV. (Gillies) ; 
in prov. Santiago del Estero, in salitrosis (Tweedie, 1157). 
I found this plant growing near Corocorto, a village 130 
miles east of Mendoza, in a swampy saline district, where it 
attains a height of 4 or 5 feet ; it is much branched, with 
straightish, rather spreading or ascending branchlets, which 
are polished, glabrous, of a reddish colour, slender and sub- 
striated. The axils are 3-5 lines apart ; the leaves 9-15 lines 
long, 5 lines broad across the three lobes, 2 lines broad imme- 
diately below them, thence tapering to the base ; they are 
scabrid beneath, with large conical white crystalhne tubercles, 
that bear on their apex a short rigid hair ; the solitary flowers 
are axillary, on a pedicel 3 lines long ; the tube of the calyx 
(3 lines long) has from twelve to fifteen erect terete teeth, 
^-1 line long, connected at their base by a short plicated 
membrane : the five appendices form a simple whorl round the 
base of the corolla ; one or two of them are spathulate upon 
an elongated slender claw 2-3 lines long and | line broad at 
the apex ; the others are sessile, setiform, 1 line long, all seri- 
ceously pilose outside, smooth inside ; the tube of the corolla 
is 3|- lines long, the lobes of the border are 1| line long, 1 line 
broad ; the filaments, fixed just within the mouth, are 2 lines 
long ; the lower part of the style is 3 lines long, its branches 
2 lines long ; the drupe is ovoid, with a thin coriaceous cover- 
ing having a saline taste, is 6 lines long, 5 lines broad, half- 
enclosed within the cupular cup of the persistent calyx ; the two 
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