Tas. 8209. 
EUCRYPHIA corpiro.ia. 
. South Chile. 
EucRYPHIACEAE. 
Evorypata, Cav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 
i. p. 615; Focke in Engl. 
et Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. vi. p. 1 
31. 
Eucryphia cordifolia, Cav. Ic. vol. iv. p. 49, t. 872; C. Gay, Hist. Chile, Bot. 
vol. i. p. 351; ab EH. Billardieri, Spach, specie affini tasmanica, differt 
foliis subtus molliter pubescentibus crenulatis vel serrato-dentatis, ovariis 
glabris et carpellis numerosioribus. 
Arbor sempervirens, in patria sua ultra 15 m. alta, trunco recto, 30-60 cm. 
diametro, superne copiose ramosa. Rami juniores fulvo-tomentosi, tandem 
glabrescentes, vetustiores cortice fusco tecti. Folia late oblonga vel elliptico- 
vel ovato-oblonga, obtusa vel rarius acuta, basi magis minusve cordata 
vel truncata vel rotundata, margine repando-crenulata vel serrato-dentata, 
4-8 em. longa, 2°5-4 em. lata, coriacea, primo utrinque pilosa, supra mox 
glaberrima, lucida, saturate viridia, infra cinerea, etiam matura molliter 
pubescentia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 7-11, venarum reticulatione supra 
conspicua, areolis minutis; petiolus crassiusculus 4-6 mm.. longus, 
tomentosus. Flores in foliorum axillis solitarii, e gemmis perulatis orti, 
perulis ovato-rotundatis tomentosis; pedicelli tomentosi, 1-2 cm. longi, 
vel demum paulo longiores. Sepala 4, late oblonga, tomentella, unacum 
calyptratim delabentia. Petala 4, obovato-rotundata vel rotundata, 
vix unguiculata, tenuia, lactea, ad 2°5cm. longa. Stamina numerosissima; 
filamenta basi efigurationibus thalami breviter tubulosis ciliatis cincta. 
Ovarium glabrum, carpellis stylisque 10-12. Capsula 12-15 mm. longa. 
Eucryphia cordifolia is a native of Chile, south of Lat. 
38° S. and particularly common in the humid forests of 
Chiloé and the provinces of Valdivia and Llanquihue. It 
is a most ornamental tree, known to the Chilians as Muermo 
or Ulmo. It was described and figured in 1797 by 
Cavanille, who established on it the genus Hueryphia, 
the systematic position of which has always been doubtful. 
First Sprengel suggested an affinity with Rosaceae, then 
Choisy attached it as an anomalous genus to Hypericaceae. 
Endlicher removed it to Chlaenaceae, whilst Spach was the 
first to point out a relationship with Ternstroemiaceae, 
particularly with Zaplacea. Then in 1846 C. Gay made 
Eucryphia the representative of a new order Eucryphiaceae, 
which he placed near Chlaenaceae. Planchon, on the other 
Avavst, 1908. 
