128 *1K. J. MIJCKS OK JSOMJi. 



Myoschilos oblonga, B. <Sf P. Prodr. p. 41, tab. 34 ; Flor. 

 Peruv. iii. p. 20, tab. 242 a\ Lain. Diet. Suppl. iv. p. 43. — Myos- 

 chilos oblongum, Gat/, Chile, v. p. 327. — Myoschilos oblongus, 

 A. DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 627. Chile in humidis ; v. v. et sice, in herb, 

 meo ex Chile (nn. 259, 21,090) in flore et fructu, in flore (Cuming 

 738); CordilL Chilian (19,557), in flore et fructu (Germain)) 

 Chiloe et Valdivia (7920), in flore (Capt. King). 



I found this plant in 1820, when I made a coloured drawing of 

 it, with copious analytical details. It grew upon the margin of 

 the small river of Eenaca, about 12 miles to the north of Valpa- 

 raiso. It is a small tree, about 6 feet high, slenderly much 

 branched, bearing numerous flowers long prior to the appearance 

 of most of the leaves. The leaves are alternate, about 1-3 lines 

 apart, of a dull green colour, obovate, acute, mucronulate, with 

 Bubrevolute margins, without apparent nerves, 4-8 lines long, 2-4 

 lines broad, on slender channelled petioles | line long, very 

 slightly puberulous on both sides; many lateral spikes at the ends 

 of the still leafless young branchlets, alternate, 3-6 lines apart : 

 peduncle 6-9 lines long, densely covered all over with numerous 

 approximate flowers, rarely 1 line apart ; calycle cupuliform, 

 -f line long, | line broad, with a frontal lateral erect acute exten- 

 sion 1 line long, pilose on both sides ; sepals 2, seated within the 

 calycle alternately with its expansion, linear, acuminate, pubes- 

 cent all over, | line long, \ line broad ; corolla of a bright red 

 colour, tube 1 line long, shortly adnate at its base to the ovary, 

 limb 5- (rarely 4-) partite ; segments acutely oblong, fleshy, sub- 

 reflexed, f line long, each furnished below the apex outside with 

 a short hooked spur : stamens equal in number to the segments, 

 opposite to them, included; filaments compressed, subulate, 

 arising from the margin of the disk and partly adherent to the 

 tube ; anthers emitting a minute bright yellow pollen, and burst- 

 ing longitudinally : style and stigma as long as the stamens : 

 drupe of a dark purple colour, oval, 3 lines long, 2\ lines broad, 

 supported by the persistent calycle and sepals : rest as in the 

 generic character. 



I cannot detect any tangible specific difference between the spe- 

 cimens above quoted and obtained from such distant localities. 





Arjona. 



This genus was established by Cavanilles in 1797. It consists 

 of 8 species, all herbaceous plants, with several suberect stems 



