147 
Eugenia Cheken Hooker et Arnott in Bot, Beech voy. 
p: 65; in Hooker Bot. Mise. II. p. 320. — Barnevud in Gay, 
Bist. Chil, IL p. 390. 
Myrtus Luma Schauer in Nov. Act. nat. cur. Bonn. XIX. 
Suppl. I. p. 333, nee Molina. 
Myrtus dives Kunze in Poepp, herb. 
Chequen incolis. 
Ramosissima ; rami obsolete 4-goni, glabri; novelli com- 
pressi, cinnamomei. Folia oppasita, supra impresso -, suhtus 
elevato-glandulosa, adulta suhtus saepe epidermide partim so- 
luta subbullulata; petiolo 1/,— 2/5 long.; lamina 4 — 9” 
long., 2 — 77% lat.; aervo medio supra planiaseulo, subtus 
prominente; venis utroque latere 4 — 6, vix manifestis, Pe- 
Aunenli 5-— 10% long., glahriuseuli, subrompressi. Alahnstra 
subgloboso-ohovata, 21/2 — 3" Iong., bracteolis 2, linearibus, 
3/, Tong., endueis stipata. Germen zlabrinsenlum, disco 
plane late obteetum; sporophoris bilnmellatis, 6-- 12-oru- 
latis.  Sepala 4, demum reflexa, 2 majora 1 — $, long. 
Petala 4, suborbieularia, vliolata, 21/, — 3” long. Stamina 
stylusque 8 — 4” long. (v. in her. Berol,, Mart., Nees, 
Vindob.). 
Speeimina Poeppigianı indamento densiore, feliis rigi- 
dioribus, supra vix. impresso -punetatis, subtus bullulatis in- 
structa sunt. 
W. Schaueras falso hane speeiem ad Myrtum Lu- 
nam Molinae vetulit, quum Molina 1. e. p. 289 pedunculos 
nee unifloros, sed trichotomos notaverit, 
Habitat in Child (Cruckshanks, Lay et Collie, Dr, Gil- 
lies), ad Yalparaiso (Cuming, coll. no, 33, 93; Bridges, 
coll, no. 322; Dr. Mertens), nec non in mentibus herbidis 
subalpinis ad Antuco, foret Decembri (Poeppig, coll. pl. Chil, 
II no. 137). 
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