Tap. 6849, 
RHAPHITHAMNUS CYANOCARPUS. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. VerpenacEx.—Tribe VERBENER, 
Genus Ruapniraamnvs, Miers; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 1149.) 
RHAPHITHAMNUS eyanocarpus ; arbor spinosa dense foliata, ramis scaberulo- 
pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-cordatis acutis v. orbiculatis et 
apiculatis integerrimis, floribus axillaribus solitariis v. confertis, floribus canis, 
calyce 5-dentato, corolle tubo cylindraceo intus villoso, lobis parvis 2 superiori- 
bus oblongis, lateralibus latioribus 3-lobis. 
R. cyanocarpus, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxvii. p. 96, t. 26. 
CITHAREXYLON cyanocarpum, Hook. and Arn, Bot. Beech. Voy. 58, t. 115 
Schauer in DC. Prodr, vol. xi. p. 609; C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. v. p. 34. 
Dvranra umbellata, Miers Trav. Chili, vol. ii. p- 530, 
Po@prreia cyanocarpa, Bertero in Bull. Sc. Nat. 1830, p. 109. 
A native of Chili, from the central provinces southward 
to the Island of Chiloe, and apparently common at Valdivia, 
from whence all collectors send specimens. Mr. Miers, 
who discovered it as a young man, and lived to create of it 
a new genus half a century afterwards, describes 1t as a 
beautiful evergreen tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, 
conspicuous for its numerous bright-green leaves, accom- 
panied by golden spines and lilac flowers interspersed 
with blue shining drupes; he further states that the native 
name is Arrayan Hspinudo, or Prickly Myrtle. Six species 
of Rhaphithamnus are described by Mr. Miers; four of 
these are apparently varieties of one, all growing in Chili, 
and all within the range ascribed to BR. cyanocarpus; the 
other two also varieties of one, are from Juan Fernandez. 
The latter differ in the flowers being an inch long and 
upwards, and in the young leaves being sharply serrate. 
I am indebted to J. Rashleigh, Hsq., J.P. of Menabilly, 
Cornwall, for a specimen in full flower of this fine plant, 
which he grows in the open air, and which is here figured ; 
the figure of the fruit is taken from a specimen which 
fruited in the Temperate House at Kew at the same date. 
pec. Ist, 1885. 
