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2-valvatim dehiscentibus. Ovaria 5-8, distincta, summo tori 

 uniseriatim affixa, ovata, gibba, unilocularia : ovula plurima, 

 reniformia, e placenta solitari parietali, ventrali, medio funi- 

 cula brevi, biseriatim appensa. Stylus subnullus. Stigma 

 parvum, breve, pulvinatum, umbilicatum, infra apicem latere 

 ventrali situm. Baccce 4-8, distinctse, oblongae, gibbse, car- 

 nosse, summo tori elevati sessiles, 1-loculares. Semina in qua- 

 que 3-10, cochleato-reniformia, hilo apicali punctiformi hori- 

 zontaliter suspensa : tunica externa (arillus) dura, crystallino- 

 crustacea, subfragilis, nitida, atra, nucleum valde gibbum et 

 crasso-virgulseformem claudens : tunica intermedia (arillina) 

 crassiuscula, celluloso-spongiosa (raphide conspicuo chordi- 

 formi sigmoideo ab apice usque ad chalazam percursa), et ad 

 integumentum tertium membranaceum adherens ; chalaza late- 

 ralis versus sinum spectans : integumentum guar turn membra- 

 naceum, reticulatum. Embryo in verticem albuminis carnosi 

 copiosi minutissimus, breviter cylindricus, utrinque obtusus, 

 cotyledonibus brevissimis, radicula hilo proxima, supera. 

 Arbores sempervirentes in America, a Mexico usque ad Fretum 

 Magellanicum et in insulis Mari Pacifici crescentes, cortice 

 aromatico ; folia exstipulata, alterna, integerrima, coriacea, 

 glaberrima, subtus scepius glauca, pellucido -punctata, petiolata ; 

 flores pedunculati, aggregati, e gemma acuminata foliolis con- 

 volutis cito deciduis orti, scepius terminates, rarius axillares, 

 pedunculis aut unifloris, aut apice pedicellis plurimis umbellatis 

 floriferis imo bracteolatis gerentibus, bracteolis involucratis par- 

 vis caducissimis. 



Div. 1. Pedunculi plurimij aggregati, axillares, 1-flori. 



1. Drimys axillaris, Forst. Gen. 84. tab. 42; DC. Syst. i. 443; 

 Prodr. i. 78; Hook. Icon. 576; Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeland. i. 

 12. D. colorata, Raoul, PL Nouv. Zel. 24. pi. 23.— Nova 

 Zelandia. 



This is admitted on all hands to be a good species, concerning 

 which there is nothing calling for remark, except that I accord 

 with Dr. Hooker in considering RaouPs plant as specifically 

 identical with it. 



Div. 2. Pedunculi axillares, umbelliferi, pedicellos 3, rarius 7, 

 bracteolatos 1-floros gerentes. 



2. Drimys Granatensis, Mutis, Linn. fil. Suppl. 269; DC. Syst. 

 i. 444; Prodr. i. 78; H.B.K. v. 53. D. Mexicana, Moq. et 

 Sess. DC. Syst. i. 444; Prodr. i. 78. Vintera Granatensis, 

 BonpL PL Mquin. i. 205. tab. 58 ; — foliis oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis, imo cuneato-angustioribus, summo subacuminatis, co- 



