Adesmia
About 110 species have been referred to this genus, but scarcely more than eighty are entitled to rank as such. To those described on p. 24, Vol. I., the following should now be added:
A. balsamica (balsamic). fl. golden-yellow, 2/3in. in diameter; racemes terminal, effuse, three to eight-flowered. March. l. 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, shortly petiolate, pinnate; leaflets ten to thirteen pairs, 1/8in. to 1/6in. long, sessile, dark green, oblong or cuneately obovate. Branches very slender, leafy. Chili, 1887. A nearly glabrous, excessively branched shrub, covered with balsamic glands. (B. M. 6921.)