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Eryngiurn sarcophyllum, Hook, et Am. 



Erijngium sarcophyllum, Hook, et Am. in Hook. Bot. Misc., iii. p. 352 ; Gay, Fl. Chil., iii. p. 117. 

 Masafuera. — Endemic. Without any memorandum — Cuming, 1355. 

 We have only seen the one specimen upon which the species was founded. 



Sanicula liberta, Ch. et Schl. 



Sanicula liberta, Ch. et Schl. in Lmnsea, i. p. 253; DC, Prodr., iv. p. 84; Gay, Fl. Chil, iii. p. 109. 

 Sanicula crassicaulis, Pceppig; DC, Prodr., iv. \>. 84. 



Juan Fernandez. Reed; Moseley. 



A native of Peru and Chili, not in any of the earlier collections from the island, and 

 probably of recent introduction there. We have not seen ripe fruit of this species, but in 

 most of them it is furnished with barbed prickles, and thereby readily conveyed from place 

 to place. 



Daucus australis, Pceppig. 



Daucus australis, Poeppig in DC., Prodr., iv. p. 214; Gay, Fl. Chil., iii. p. 136; Philippi in Bot. 

 Zeit., 1856, p. 628. 



Juan Fernandez (ex Philippi). 



Common in Chili, and perhaps of recent introduction in the island, as it does not occur 



in the early collections. 



GAMOPETAL.E. 



RUBIACE^E. 



Ooprosma triflora, Benth. et Hook. 



Coprosma triflora, Benth. et Hook., Gen. Plant., ii. p. 139. 

 Psychotria hookeri, Don, Gen. Syst. Gard., iii. p. 585; Gay, Fl. Chil., iii. p. 198. 

 Psychotria triflora, Hook, et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Misc., iii. p. 359, non Schum. 

 Hippotis triflora, Bertero in Ann. Sc. Nat., xxi. p. 347, non Ruiz et Pavon. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. Very common — Bertero, 14 66 ; Cuming, 1337 ; Reed; 

 Moseley. 



The genus Coprosma comprises between thirty and forty species, mostly inhabiting 

 New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, and a few Oceania and Australia. 



Psychotria pyrifolia, Hook, et Arn. 



Psychotria pyrifolia, Hook, et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Misc., iii. p. 360 ; Gay, Fl. Chil., iii. p. 199. 



J can Fernandez. — In the more elevated mountain woods — Bertero. Masapuera, 



Reed. 



"Peralillo" of the inhabitants of Juan Fernandez, according to Bertero. 



