Beechey’s Voyage, where indeed it is described twice over, the 
Arbutus ? punctata proving to be the same plant. Mr. Gay, in 
his ‘ Flora Chilensis,’ entirely omits it. Without a knowledge of 
the structure of the fruit I fear the genus of the plant must be 
considered still doubtful. It has the habit of Gaultheria, but 
the calyx is not carnose. Dr. Klotzsch unhesitatingly places it in 
Pernettya ; but it is at variance with his characters, for the cells 
of the anthers are muticous (not “ biaristate”), and the flowers . 
are racemose (not on “solitary peduncles’’). 
Descr. A low shrub, moderately branched, younger ranches 
green, and having older ones brown and glabrous. Leaves alter- 
nate, an inch and a half long, ovato-lanceolate, rarely subovate, 
acute and somewhat mucronate, the margins serrated, a little re- 
curved, ciliated when young, above penninerved, dark green, below 
paler and reticulately veined ; petzole very short, red. Racemes 
almost sessile, solitary in the axils of several of the upper leaves, 
and about the same length as they, many-flowered ; rachis pa- 
leaceo-setose ; pedicels short, white, glabrous, curved downwards, 
bearing two or three small dracts at the base. Calyx white, of 
five, spreading, white, ovato-acuminated and deep lobes. Corolla 
white, urceolato-globose, waxy, the faux hairy; the /iméd of five 
spreading rather obtuse Jobes. Stamens ten; filaments wuch di- 
lated at the base and downy there; anthers ovate, forked at the 
apex, but not aristate, opening by a pore in each acuminated apex 
in front. Ovary globose or slightly depressed, surrounded at the 
base by a ten-toothed rimg. Style shorter than the corolla, thick, 
columnar : stigma truncated, scarcely lobed. 
Fig. 1. Young leaf seen from beneath :—natural size. 2. Portion of the 
rachis of a raceme with one flower. 3, 4. Front and back view of a stamen. 
5. Calyx and pistil (the corolla and stamens being removed). 6. Ovary and 
glandular ring :—magnified. 
