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BOLDOA fragrans. 
Sweet-scented Boldu. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Monimiaceæ—(Monimrans, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 298. 
ined.) 
BOLDOA, Jussieu. Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonium campanulatum, 
limbi quinquefidi laciniis patentibus, intus coloratis. Sywame faucis peta- 
loideæ 5, limbi laciniis alternæ et sequales. Stamina plurima, perigonii tubo 
et fauci inserta ; filamenta complanata, supra basim utrinque auriculata ; 
anthere biloculares, loculis connectivo: dilatato opposite adnatis, longitudina- 
liter dehiscentibus. Fem. Perigonium maris, faucis squamis angustioribus. 
Stamina abortiva glandulæformia, juxta faucem et per perigonii tubum sparsa. 
Ovaria 2-9, conica, e perigonii fundo brevissime stipitata, conniventia, apice 
subeohserentia, uniloeularia. Ovulum unicum, pendulum. Styli filiformes, 
distincti; stigmata simplicia. Drupe 2-9, perigonio demum deciduo nude, 
monospermæ, Semen inversum. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus ; 
cotyledonibus planis, ellipticis ; radicula supera. Arbor chilensis, aroma- 
tica; folis oppositis, breve petiolatis, ovato-oblongis, coriaceis, semperviren- 
tibus, integerrimis, papilloso-seabris, racemis azillaribus.—Endl. gen. p. 314. 
sub Ruizia. 
B. fragrans, Jussieu in Annales du Mus. xiv. 134. 
Peumus fragrans, Pers. Synops. 2. 629. 
** Peumus Boldu, Molin. Chil. p. 200. Feuill. Peruv. 3. p. 11. t. 6.” 
Ruizia fragrans, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 135. t.39. Syst. Fl. Peru. p. 266. 268. 
Endl. iconogr. t. 2019. Lindl. Veget. Kingdom, p. 298. f. 205. ined. 
This is a small tree or bush, with a highly aromatic odour 
in every part. It has round, grey, slightly downy branches, 
and roundish ovate evergreen opposite leaves, placed on short 
stalks, and studded with hard points, which give them a very 
rough surface. The flowers are diecious, pale greenish white, 
in little terminal panicles, each branch of which is rather regu- 
larly 8-parted. In this country the male only is known. Of 
that sex the calyx is a leathery cup divided at the edge into an 
uncertain number of strap-shaped segments placed in two or 
three rows. All the inside of the cup is lined with stamens, 
whose filament bears at its base a pair of ear-shaped glands, 
terminated by a half transparent rim; the anther is oblong, 
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