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Falklands, etc.]

1. FORSTERA, L.

1. muscifolia, Willd., Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 148. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 338. F. uliginosa, Homb. et Jacq. in Yog. an Pole Si/d, Bot. Plian. Dicot. t. 16 D. Phyllachne uliginosa, Forster, Comm. Goett. vol. ix. p. 24. Swartz in Schrad. Journ. vol. ii. p. 173. t. 1, et in Koenig and Sims Annals of Bot. vol.i. p. 286. t. 5. Lamarck Illust. Gen. t. 741. lourn. Hist. Nat. p. 190. t, 10. f. 2. Stibas, Commerson, MSS.

Hab. Strait of Magalhaens, Commerson, MM. Eomlron et Jacquiuot; Fuegia, Good Success Bay, Banks and Solander, Forster, C. Darwin, Esq.; Port Famine, Copt. King; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, J. D. H. For remarks upon this species, see Part 1. p. 39 of the present work. Like the Donatia, a plant which, from the nature of the soil, climate, and vegetation of the Falklands, might be expected to have been met with there, accompanying the Caltha appendiculata and Astelia pumila.

1. PRATIA, Gaud.

1. Peatia repens, Gaud. vid. ante Part 1. p. 42. in note.

Hab. Fuegia, Staten Land, Dr. Eights; Falkland Islands, Gaitdichand, D'Urville, and all succeeding voyagers.

Since the publication of the synopsis of this genus, in the first part of the present work, I have examined a new species from the Straits of Magalhaens, also inhabiting the eastern side of the Andes of Chili, specimens of which, from the latter locality, were then considered to be the true P. repens, which, so far as I am aware, is a native of the Falkland Islands, Staten Land, and Valparaiso only.

2. Pratia longiflora, Hook, fil.; glaberrirna, caule breviusculo repente subsiinplici, foliis paucis erectis carnosis longe petiolatis ovatis obtusis integerrimis v. obscure sinuatis, pedunculis fere terminalibus folio aequilongis ebracteatis, calycis segmentis ovatis acutis, corollse tubo cyliiidraceo elongato lobis patentibus triplo longiore.

Hab. Strait of Magalhaens; Cape Negro, C. Darwin, Esq.

Herba laxe caespitosa. Caulis "diametro pennse passerinae, 1 unc. longus, repens, nodosus, apice ascendente. Petioli basi vaginantes, -i-1 unc. longi, crassiusculi, erecti. Folia magnitudine varia, i-J uncialia, subcoriacea, enervia. Peduncidi ex axillis supremis orti, validi, infra florem gradatim incrassati. Ovarium late oblongum, gibbosiun. Cahjeis dentes erecti sub -i lin. longi.

Very nearly allied to the former, but differing in the short stems and much smaller and narrower foliage, and most materially in the narrow cylindrical tube of the corolla, which is far longer than the segments, and nearly four times as long as broad. Mi-. Bridges has gathered specimens in the marshes of El Valle de las Cuevas, on the eastern side of the Andes of Chili.