48 Mr. J. Miers on the Winteracese. 



Folia 3-4| poll, longa, 1-1 1 poll, lata, petiolus 6-9 lin. 

 longus ; puncta pellucida quam in prsecedenti majora et spar- 

 siora ; petala biserialia ; stamina crebra circiter 40 brevia ; 

 gynophorus cylindricus longiusculus. Variat magnitudine fo- 

 liorum et abundantia florum. 



a. var. campestris, St. Hil. loc. cit. 1. tab. 26. 

 yS. var. sylvatica, St. Hil. loc. cit. 3. tab. 27. 

 7. var. axillaris, St. Hil. loc. cit. 3. 



9. Drimys Fernandesianus y n. sp.; — foliis in apice ramulo- 

 rum confertis, lanceolatis, utrinque paullo acutis, acumine 

 obtusiusculo, superne nitidis, confertim granulosis, granulis 

 porosis, subtus e punctulis albis crebris minutissimis incanis, 

 nervis tenuibus utrinque immersis, vix prominulis, longe intra 

 raarginem sese arcuatis, costa media crassa, prominenti, ru- 

 bescente, glabra, superne sulcata; petiolo brevissimo, lato, 

 rubello, subamplexicauli ; floribus terminalibus, umbellatis, 

 pedunculis elongatis, plurimis, confertis, rubellis, valde anci- 

 pitibus; pedicellis 6, gracilibus, longiusculis ; petalis 8; 

 * ovariis 8. — In Insula Juan Fernandez. — v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 (Bertero, n. 1453; Cuming, n. 1328). 



Folia 3-3| poll, longa, 6-11 lin. lata, petiolus 1 ^ lin. longus 

 et latus; pedunculi terminales plurimi, conferti, 9-12 lin. 

 longi, valde compressi, striati, pedicellis vix breviores, te- 

 nuiores ; calyx 2-partitus, imo demum circa gynophorum cir- 

 cumscissus, et in pedicello trajecto delapsus ; petala 8, line- 

 aria, pellucido-punctata ; stamina 40 et ultra, in seriebus 4 

 disposita; antherse subextrorsse ; ovaria 8*. 



It is stated in the f Flora Antarctica/ p. 229, tbat this plant 

 quite conforms to that collected in the Organ Mountains of Rio 

 de Janeiro by Gardner (his No. 5675) ; this latter plant was 

 also found by myself in the same locality, and I made a drawing 

 of it on the spot ; but I do not perceive the same resemblance 

 between them. There is a striking difference in the length of 

 the petiole, which, in the Brazilian plant, is three or four times 

 the length, and only half the breadth of the other ; it has much 

 stouter peduncles, and pedicels of only half the length of the 

 other, their number being only three in the Organ Mountains 

 plant, and six or seven in that from Juan Fernandez ; the former 

 has twelve petals and six or seven ovaries ; the latter usually 

 eight petals and eight ovaries. 



[To be continued.] 



* A drawing of this species is given in the ' Contributions to Botany,' 

 plate 27 b. 



