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natum, sursum curvatum: stylus brevis: stigma acutum, 
simplex. Thecaphorum elongatum (semiunciam longum), 
lepidotum. Bacca? globosa, indehiscens, crustacea, 
dense lepidota, stylo apiculata, monosperma. Albumen 0. 
Embryo carnosus, albus, incurvus; cotyledones magne, 
crasse, invicem longitudinaliter plicato-convolutze: . radi- 
cula teres, lateralis (= 0), supera.—Frutex durus, ramo- 
sus. Rami feretes, grisei, sublepidoti, ultimi angulo recto 
divergentes, recti, sensim attenuati (ideoque in parte fruti- 
cis inferiore spinescentes ?). Folia in ramos ultimos alter- 
nantia, brevissime petiolata, lineari-oblonga, basi apiceque 
emarginata, supra canaliculata viridia, subtus lepidota, 
nervo carinata. Pedunculus axillaris solitarius simplex. 
Calyx atque petala externe lepidota. 
60. * 1.) Atamisquea emarginata, Miers, Chili, v. 2. p. 529.— 
Uncultivated places about Mendoza, Dr. Gillies.—Nom. 
vernac. Atamisqua.—As there are no descriptions accom- 
panying the catalogue at the end of Mr. Miers' work, we 
could not have ascertained the present to be the plant 
intended by him, had not Dr. Gillies informed us that he 
was present when Mr. Miers proposed. to give it the 
above generic name. Its s pFaipn pim sie 
61. (1.) Azara serrata, Pen aniisi Mathews 
(N. 232.); Cuming (N. 624, in-herb. Hook., mixed 
with A.. integrifolia.) =- 
62. (2.) Azara dentata, R. et m Gadis del Maypu, 
Chili, Dr. Gillies. Valparaiso, Messrs. Lay and Collie. 
Cordillera of Chili, Cuming " amarem vernac. 
Corqulin. (Gil) ^ ^ 
63. (3.) Azara- integrifolia; R- oe Paicdisiemins- MS 
Lay and Collie ; Mathews (N. 933.) ; Cuming (N. 624, 
in herb. Arn, and mixed with A. serrata in herb. Hook.) 
64. (4.) Azara celastrina, Don.—A. Lilen, Bertero; Lilenia, 
nov. gen. Bert.— Valparaiso, Macrae ; Wee c oed 
Bridges. Cordillera, wo cl — Hs 
. —Nom. vernac. Lilen. - 
