C. Gay in his Flora of Chili, describes the Patagua as 

 inhabiting valleys of the Cordillera between Concepcion 

 and Santiago, at an elevation of three thousand seven hun- 

 dred feet, and says that the wood is very white, good, and 

 much used for building and joiners' work; but that it 

 must not be confounded with the Patagua of Valdivia, 

 which is a species of Arrayan with wood of a bad quality. 

 Molina says the flowers are fragrant, and gives the dimen- 

 sions of the trunk as such that four men can scarcely 

 encompass it ; but this last statement Miers discredits. 



A plant of Tricuspidaria dependents has long been culti- 

 vated in the Temperate House at Kew, and flowers in 

 spring. Its history is unknown. Mr. Watson informs 

 me that the buds are very slowly developed, being formed 

 in September, and then being as large as peas, but not fully 

 developing till the following April, after which they remain 

 tor at least a month on the tree. 



Descr. A small tree ; branchlets, petioles, peduncles and 

 calyx pubescent. Leaves three to five inches long, oppo- 

 site and alternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 serrulate nerves strong beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 long peduncled, pendulous ; peduncle ebracteate, two to 

 two and a half inches long, stout, green speckled with red. 

 Bepals five, pubescent, greenish-red, variously cohering and 

 forming an irregularly dehiscent calyx. Corolla one to one 

 and a quarter inch long, urceolate, blood-red, deeply ten 

 grooved; petals linear, very fleshy, in duplicate-valvate, 

 three-toothed at the tip, deeply inflexed margins and stout 

 mia-rib within pubescent, base bisaccate. Stamens fifteen, 

 inserted on a thickened hypogynous glandular disk, ten 

 outer situated on the glands, five inner eglandular at the 

 base ; filaments slender, incurved, glabrous; anthers linear, 

 as long as the filaments, pubescent, obtusely four-ane-led. 

 Ovary villous, five-celled, cells many-ovuled. Style elon- 

 gate, subulate, stigma minute.— J. I). H. 



Fig 1, Calyx; 2, petal seen from within; 3, disk, stamen, and pistil; 

 4, anther ; o, disk and ovary ; 6, vertical section of ovary -.-all enlarged. 



