Lak, Boe 
VILLARESIA MvcRONATA. 
Chile. 
ICACINACEAE. 
Vinwaresta, Ruiz et Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 353. 
Villaresia mucronata, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. vol. iii. p. 9, t. 281; Gay, FU. 
Chil, vol. ii. p. 18; Miers, Contrib. Bot, vol. ii. p. 115, t. 67; Engl. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vol. xii. pars 2, p. 58; Reiche, Fl. Chil. vol. ii. p. 4; arbor habitu 
Ilicis Aquifolii, Linn., a qua foliis exstipulatis, subtus in axillis nervorum 
lateralium foveo!atis necnon floribus distinguitur. 
Arbor ; ad 12 m. usque alta. Ramuli angulati, pubescentes, demum glabre- 
scentes. olia alterna, breviter petiolata, ovato-oblonga vel elliptico- 
oblonga, spinuloso-apiculata, busi obtusa vel rotundata, 5-8 cm. longa, 
2°5-4°5 em. lata, integra; ea arborum juvenium et surculorum majora, 
basi rotundata vel subcordata, margine undulata, valde spinuloso-dentata ; 
coriacea, leviter convexa, supra nitida, subtus pallidiora, opaca, nervis 
prominentibus, foveolis pluribus singulis in axillis nervorum; petioli 
7 mm. longi. 7hyrsiterminales et in axillis foliorum superiorum singuli, 
2°5-5 cm. longi, breviter pilosi, ramis patulis apice flores plures sessiles 
gerentibus. //ores pentameri. Sepala suberceta, imbricata, late elliptica 
vel suborbicularia, rotundata, 1-5-2 mm. longa, subsequilata, sparse 
ciliata, extra inferne pilosa. etulu cum filamentis inferne leviter connata, 
flavido-alba, elliptico-oblonga, apice rotundata, 6 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, 
nervo medio intus valde incrassato prominente. Filamenta crasse subulata, 
2-3 mm. longa; antherae late ellipticae, circiter 1:3 mm, longae, lateraliter 
dehiscentes. Ovariwm abortu 1-loculare, ovoideum, circiter 1°5 mm. 
longum ; stylus rectus, circiter 1 mm. longus; stigma obliquum, irregu- 
lariter lobatum ; ovula 2, collateralia, pendula. Drupa ovoidea, 10-16 mm. 
longa, 8-19 mm. diametro (ex Reiche).—V. pungens, Miers, Contrib. Bot. 
vol. ii. p. 116, t. 68. Citronella mucronatu, D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. 
Journ. vol. xiii. Oct. 1882, p. 243.—T. A. SpRaGur. 
The commemorative name Villaresia was originally 
bestowed by Ruiz and Pavon on a Peruvian plant collected 
at Pillao; a description of this genus was given by them in 
1794 (Fl. Per. et Chil. Prodr. p. 35), and an account of 
UZ emarginata, the species on which it was based, was 
supplied in 1798 (Syst. Veg. FI. Per. et Chil. p. 64). The 
Specimens of this Peruvian plant would appear to have been 
lost ; possibly, as D, Don has suggested, in the shipwreck of 
the San Pedro de Alcantara. But from the descriptions 
Which exist we learn that V. emarginata had a. sessile 
stigma, an oblong acuminate 2-valved, l-seeded capsule, and 
May, 1911. 
