190 Mr. J. Miers on a new species of Lardizabala, 



Dombey. Arauco is a province bordering on that of Concepcion, 

 and separated from it by the river Biobio. 



The following is offered as an amended character of the 

 genus : — 



Lardizabala, R. & P. — Flores polygamo-dioici. Masc. Se- 

 pala 6, alternatim biseriata, carnosula, exteriora ovata, sesti- 

 vatione valvata, interiora angustiora, spathulata, acuminata. 

 Petala 6, biseriata, oblongo- vel lineari-lanceolata, acutiuscula, 

 exteriora paullo latiora. Stamina 6; filamenta in tubum 

 monadelphum coalita ; anther a extrorsse, adnata?, 2-loculares, 

 connectivo breviter apiculatse. Ovaria 3, rudimentaria, plus 

 minus ve attenuata. Fern. Sepala 6, biseriata, crassiuscula, 

 campanulatim expansa, exteriora oblonga, versus basin at- 

 tenuata, concava, interiora alternantia angustiora, imo spathu- 

 lata. Petala 6, sepalis triplo breviora, biseriatim alterna, 

 lineari-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata. Stamina 6, libera, 

 hypogyna, gynophoro brevi inserta, petalis dimidio breviora ; 

 filamenta teretiuscula ; antherce eorundem longitudine ob- 

 longse, 2-loculares, connectivo apiculatse, effcetse. Ovaria 3*, 

 teretia, cylindrica, medio extus gibbosa, unilocularia : ovula 

 numerosissima, ad placentas 6 longitudinaliter, parietales pro- 

 minentes horizontaliter affixa, campylotropa. Stylus brevis, 

 obtusus, ovario continuus. Stigma sessile, glandulosum. 

 Baccce 3, majusculse, cylindricse, torulosse, stylo apiculatse, 

 polyspermse. Semina subovata, gibba, compressa, fusca, in 

 pulpam mucilagineam nidulantia, hilo infra medium margi- 

 nali, parvulo, foramine pertuso : tunica externa testacea, fra- 

 gilis; integumenta propria dupla, subadhserentia (exteriori 

 subcarnoso raphigeri, interiori submembranaceo), albumen 

 profundissime excavatum arete vestientia, et circum podo- 

 spermium magnum internum fungosum compresso-ovatum 

 raphide tubuloso annulari cinctum configurata : albumen 

 huic modo hippocrepice et profunde excavatum, acetabuli- 

 forme, magnum, carnosum : embryo marginem versus infe- 

 riorem acetabuli oblique inclusus, parvus, sub teres, radicula 

 cylindrica, infera, cotyledonibus compressis centripetis sequi- 

 longa et sequilata. 



Frutices Chilenses scandentes, foliis alternis, ternatis vel biter- 

 natis, petiolatis, foliolis integris, vel sinuato-dentatis, coriaceis, 

 nitidis, glabris, vel parce pubescentibus, petiolo refracto, imo 

 stipulis foliaceis, scepe rotundatis et majusculis donato ; pedun- 

 culo glabro e gemma squamiformi axillari orto, in masculis 

 plurifloro, floribus breviter pedicellatis, racemosis, bracteolatis, 



* Interdum 6 secundum DeCandolle, Syst. i. 512, sed dubia. 



