ABS AOR: 
HUCRYPHIA prnyatirouta. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacem.—Tribe QUILLAJE. 
Genus Evcryputa, Cavanilles ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 615.) 
Eucrypuia pinnatifolia, arbuscula glabra, foliis pinnatis cum impari, foliolis 
1-5-jugis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis crenato-dentatis supra saturate 
viridibus lucidis subtus pallidis, terminali petiolulato, stipulis oblongo- 
lanceolatis subacutis deciduis, floribus amplis breviter pedunculatis, 
sepalis parvis late oblongis, petalis orbiculari-obovatis concavis, stamini- 
bus perplurimis disco v. toro tenui insertis, filamentis capillaribus, antheris 
minutis, ovario pubescente, stylis numerosis filiformibus. 
E. pinnatifolia, Gay Flor. Chil. vol. i. p. 352, t. 8; Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. i. 
p. 8387; The Garden, Dec. 1877; Walp. Ann. vol. i. p. 113. 
Fagus glutinosa, Pepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vol. ii. p. 68, t. 194. 
The genus Hucryphia, founded on another Chilian 
species with simple leaves, has not yet found a generally 
accepted abiding place in the ‘Systema Plantarum.” 
Spach placed it in Hypericinee ; Endlicher at the end of 
Chlenacee ; Bentham and Planchon referred it to Cunoniace, 
a tribe of Sawifragee ; C. Gay constituted of it a distinct 
family, Hucryphiew; in the Genera Plantarum I| have 
referred it to Quillajee, another tribe of Sazxifragee, in 
which I am followed by Baillon; and finally Maximovicz, in 
his learned ‘“ Adnotationes ad Spirzaceas,” inclines to 
regard it as nearer T'liaceew and Kleocarpee. The genus 
is remarkable as being confined to Tasmania and Chili, 
and was independently described from the former countr, 
by Labillardiere as Carpodontos. Only three species of it 
are known, two simple-leaved ones, and that here figured 
with pinnated leaves, which is the only one hitherto intro- 
duced into Europe. : 
E. pinnatifolia appears to be a very local plant, bemg 
confined, as far as is known, to the Cordillera of Concep- 
cion, where it forms a bushy tree about ten feet high, and 
is called, Nirrhe by the people. It was introduced into 
Juty Isr, 1889. : 
