cular treatment, and is believed to be a native of Valdivia, 
introduced, probably, by Mr. Cumine. 
Descr. Shrub erect, branched, glabrous; twigs red. 
Leaves scattered, narrow-lanceolate, glabrous, spreading, 
and arched backwards, dark green above, paler below, per- 
sisting, coriaceous, distantly tooth-serrated along the whole 
of the edge which is callous, midrib conspicuous behind on 
account of its subdiaphanous appearance there, but obscure 
in front, lateral veins very obscure. Pedicels axillary, soli- 
tary, single-flowered, collected and often crowded towards 
the extremities of the shoots, about half as long as the 
lower leaves, longer than the diminished upper leaves, 
white, glabrous, cased at their origin by several adpressed, 
imbricated, oval scales. Flowers cernuous. Calyx per- 
sisting, white, glabrous, 5-partite, tumid at the base, seg- 
ments of the lamb ovate, adpressed. Corolla white, sub- 
orbicular, about three times as long as the calyx, its limb 
consisting of five, ovate, reflected teeth. Stamens half as 
long as the corolla, from the base of which they arise, alter- 
nately longer, the shortest about as long as the calyx ; fila- 
ments white, dilated into a circular base; anthers brown, 
opening by two pores, each of which has two short, erect, 
awns, from its outer edge. Hypogynous gland green, ten- 
lobed. Pistil scarcely longer than the stamens ; germen 
green, subglobular, obscurely lobed, five-locular; style 
stout, erect; stagma blunt. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Germen. 3, Stamen:—magnified. 
