400 
Rami teretes, glahri; ramuli oompressi, Folia appasita, 
supra obseure viridia, saepe impresso - punetafa, navella ob- 
solete pellueido - punetata ; petiolo 2/4, Y/2' long.; lamina % 
— 5 Jong, 1% lat.; nervo medio supra impresso, sub- 
tus elerato, Peduncnli eompressi, 36" long. Alahastra 
2 long; hraeteolis stipantibus endneis.,  Germen loenlis 
pluriovulatis.  Sepala majora 1° long, reliqua paulo bre- 
viora. Petala 4, oyali-subrotunda, minatissime eiliglata, 2° 
long. Stamina plwima, 12/9 long. Stylus stamina sub- 
aequans; stigma simplex. DBacea ?-- 3-locularis, violaceo - 
purpurea,, 2” diametro, loculis 1 -spermis.  Semina renata, 
eompressa, tesfı membranaren ohteeta. Embryo spiralis v. 
uneinato - curvalus; radieula elongata, eurvata, 1 long.s 0- 
tylis 2, foliaceis, plane -ennvexis, ovatis, %,' long. (. spe- 
eimina originalia Gayana et Lechleriana in hb. Berol, ef 
Yindob.). 
Formam majorem, foliis semipallice vulgo majaribus, 
margine eiliatis (Miguel) non vidi. 
Habitat in Glilö (Gay, Bridges, coll. no, 690), in silvis 
uliginosis prope urbem Paldivia, floret Deeembri (Lechler, 
eoll. no. 448, 609:A.). . 
4, M. stipularis Hook.; glahra; vamulis subalato -4-gonis: 
foliis parvis, petiolatis, rigidis, stipulafis, enrdalis, ovatis, 
ovato-oblongis v. Ianceolatis apiee aentis v, „biusiusenlis, 
grosse rareque pellueido - punefalis, aveniis v. subtus 5—7- 
plinervüis; pedunculis axillaribus, 1 -- 3-Aoris, folio sub- 
aequalibns v. brevioribus; germine 3-Iocnlari; sepalis 5, 
oyato-roinndis, carinatis; staminibus elongalis, strietis. d+ 
Myrtus stipularis Hooker et Arm. in Hook. Bot. Misc. 
EI. p. 316. — Barndond in Gay. Hist, Chil, Bot. IL p. 378. 
— Metrosideros stipularis Dalt, Hooker Fl. antare. pı 275. 
Tepual ineolis, 
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