20 
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Frutex 5 — 8-pedalis; rami sub -4-goni; noyelli com- 
pressi.  Folia opposita, subtas pallidissima ut ab apice ad 
basin bullata, ita ut epidermis folii vesicam inlatam referat; 
peliolo 1/2 long.; lamina 3 — 5 long, 2%, — 3" lat. 
Pedunculi 3— 4 long. Alabastra 11/,“ long., bracteolis 2, 
foliaceis, oblongis, 1 long. stipata. Germen puberulum, 
multiovulatum. Sepala 4, 1 — 5/2 long. Peiala 4, sal- 
rotunda, 1%,“ long, Stamina 12, paulo petalis longiora. 
Stylus 2 long.; stigma capitatum, Bacca alba, sapida, 3% 
long. {v. in hb. Vind. et Berol.). 
Il. Kunzeus hane manifestam Myrtaccam incante ad 
Erieaceas adduxerat. 
Habitat in Chili, in altiindine 20002500 pedum (Dr. 
Philippi, eoll. no. 92); rarissime in valle Ouillay- Leucu, 
in monlium Andes de Antuco, flor. Febr. (Poepp., coll. no. 
927), in rnpium alpinarum fissuris summi Pico de Pilgue 
(7500°), fructif. Jannario (Poepp., coll. no. 862). 
3. M. vaccinioides Berg; ramulis pedunenlisque et germi- 
nibus hirtis; foliis parvis, petiolatis, coriaceis, ovatis v. ovato- 
oblongis, apice acutiusenlis, basi obtusis, convexis, glahris, 
supra nitidis, vugosis, impresso-, obscure pellueido - punctatis, 
avenis; pednnenlis axillaribus, solitariis, 1-Noris, folio bre- 
vioribus; germine 3-loculari; sepalis oblongis, sensim angu- 
stalis, obtnsiusenlis; bacea subglobosa, oligesperma, calyce 
coronata. 5. 
Myrtus idaea Wild. herk. no. 9551. 
..  Myrtas vaceinioides Hb,, Bpl. et Kunth. Nov. gen, Am. 
VI. p. 189. — DC. 1. c. p. 238. 
Rami brunneo-hirti, Felia opposita; petiolo %/, — Ya’'’ 
long.; lamina 3/7 long, 1%, — 2° lal.; nervo medio supra 
impresso, subtus prominente, Pedunenli Noriferi 1 long, 
fenetiferi 11/5”,  Alabastra 2 long,, braoteolis 2, lanceo- 
