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2. PATAGONULA GLABRA, nob. : Patagonula Americana, var. glabra, Cham. Linn. iv. 492 ; 
Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Br. l. c. p. 27, tab. 9. fig. 9 : ramosissima, ramis tenuibus, striolatis, 
lenticellato-rugulosis, glabris: foliis lanceolato-oblongis, imo subeuneatis, apice 
obtusis aut subacutis, junioribus lineari-lanceolatis, summum versus remote dentatis, 
marginibus revolutis, subcoriaceis, impunctatis, opacis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra 
viridibus, subtus pallide glaucis, costa nervisque prominulis, venis tenuissime 
reticulatis, interstitiis elevatis, hine quasi punctato-granulatis ; petiolo tenui, supra 
plano, limbo 12-15plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus dichotome 
multidivisis, glabris, raro obsolete pilosulis; floribus parvis, pedicellatis ; calyce 
5-partito, lobis oblongis, obtusis, extus pilis articulatis puberulis, apice pilis sim- 
plicibus ciliatis; corolle tubo calycem :equante, campanulato, extus glabro, intus 
scabridule pruinoso, limbi lobis 5, ovatis, tubo æquilongis, expansis; staminibus 5, 
in tubi basin insertis, ultra faucem vix exsertis, glabris; ovario conico, disco 4-lobo 
imposito, 4-loculari; stylo bis bifido: drupa parva, conice globosa, imo stipitata, 
apice apiculata, calyce demum magnopere aucto circumdata, laciniis spathulato- 
oblongis vel lineari-oblongis, reticulatis, pellucido-punctulatis, glaberrimis, radiatim 
expansis. Іп Brasilia, prov. Rio Grande do Sul: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. et Hook. 
Encrucilhado, Rio 8. Barbara (Sellow). 
Sellow's plant was considered by Chamisso a mere variety of the typical species, which 
he had never seen; but it differs widely in its much smaller, more coriaceous leaves and 
other characters. 
It forms a tree of moderate size, furnishing a useful timber of a yellowish white 
colour, called Zpé branco. Its slender branchlets are quite glabrous, a few hairs being 
sometimes seen on the axillary bud; the axils are 1—4 in. apart; the leaves, which 
Chamisso compares to those of the Laurel, are 11-21 in. long, 7-12 lines broad, 
on petioles 13—2 lines long: from their opaque texture they form a great contrast to the 
submembranaceous leaves of the preceding species. The panicles, which have slender 
ramifications, are almost glabrous, about 2 in. long; the calyx is said by Fresenius to be 
covered with glanduliferous hairs. I found the corolla persistent at the base of the free 
drupe; it has a campanular tube 1 line long, with lobes of equal length; the filaments 
are not fixed in the throat, as Chamisso states, but near ‘the base of the tube. The 
fructiferous calyx has 5 spathulate lobes 10-11 lines long, 13-2 lines broad, with a central 
stipitate drupe 2 lines long and 1 line broad. © 
3. PATAGONULA TWEEDIANA, nob.: ramulis tenuibus, angulato-striatis, glabris: foliis 
glaberrimis, lanceolatis vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo cuneatis et integris, a medio 
sursum gradatim acutis et crenulato-dentatis, chartaceis, supra viridibus, nitidis, 
costa flavida complanata, tenuiter nervosis, granulato-punetatis, subtus pallidioribus, 
nervis tenuissimis immersis, creberrime flavido-maculatis ; petiolo tenui, subplano, 
limbo 12-15plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus diehotome divisis, floribus parvis in 
ultimis sectionibus glomerulatis; calyce 4-partito; corolle glabrsz tubo brevi sub- 
campanulato, limbi laciniis 4, oblongis, obtusis, extus obsolete puberulis; fila- 
mentis tenuissimis 4, paullo sub faucem insertis, longe exsertis, sparse pilosulis : 
