and Valdivia, and hence its hardiness may be accounted for. It 
is called “Arroyan” by the natives. 
*  Descr. A shrub, varying, it is said, much in size in its native 
country, from three to several feet in height, copiously branched ; 
branchlets, petioles, and veins beneath ferruginously downy. 
Leaves copious, opposite, nearly sessile, about three-fourths of an 
inch long, broad, oval, approaching to orbicular, but acute at 
the base and sharply apiculate at the point; above, in the living 
state, distinctly pinnately veined, indistinctly so when dry; be- 
neath paler and more obovately veined and reticulated, obscurely 
dotted, and having a marginal vein. owers solitary, on rather 
short peduncles, or the peduncles are branched and bear from 
three to five moderately large white flowers. These also a good 
_* deal resemble the common Myrtle, but the petals are larger and 
more concave. There is a pair of dracts at the base of the ovary. 
Stamens numerous. Petals four. Ovary two-celled. Cells two- 
seeded. 
Fig. 1. Two flower-buds and expanded flower, from which the stamens and 
petals are removed. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
