and on the Structure of the Seed in that genus, 191 



bracteolis acutis, ciliolatis ; in foemineis unifloro, flore majori 

 ebracteato ; floribus omnibus purpureis. 



1. Lardizabala bitemata, It. & P. L. triternata, R. fy P. Prodr. 

 Fl. Perm. 143. tab. 37 ; Syst. i. 286 ; DC. Syst. i. 512 ; Prodr. 

 i. 95 ; Delessert,Icones, i. tab. 91 ; Decaisne,Archiv.Mus.i. 187. 

 tab. 11 ; Hooker j Bot. Mag. tab. 4501. — Chile (Concepcion et 

 Quillota). 



2. Lardizabala sylvicola,nov.sy. $ ', — ramulis volubilibus, striatis, 

 glabris ; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis basi sequalibus, ample ovatis, 

 late truncatis et subcordatis, obtusis, submembranaceis, mar- 

 gine cartilagineo, hinc insequaliter sinuatis, angulis cuspidatis, 

 5-nerviis, valde reticulatis, omnibus petiolulatis, petiolulis 

 lateralibus petiolo subsequilongis, intermedio 2-plo longiori, 

 omnibus summo et imo incrassatis nervisque pilosulis, petiolo 

 e basi subito refracto ; stipulis axillaribus parvis, lineari- 

 spathulatis, glabris, venosis, mucronato - denticulatis ; foliis 

 terminalibus multo minoribus, glaberrimis, coriaceis, fere in- 

 tegris, margine cartilagineo crenulatis; floribus speciosis, 

 violaceis, axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculo elongato, summo 

 incrassato, e fasciculo bractearum orto, et paullo supra basin 

 bractea unica donato, bracteis parvulis, acutis, margine ciliatis ; 

 sepalis amplis in campanulam dispositis; fructibus magnis, 

 toruloso-cylindricis, edulibus. — Chile (apud Concon). 



I found this plant at Concon, midway between Valparaiso and 

 Quillota, in a wood that surrounds a small valley well sheltered 

 by hills, called u Potrero del Peral." The short portion of the 

 stem of the branchlet in my specimen is of the thickness of a 

 goose-quill, somewhat flattened, and probably of a first year's 

 growth, as it has a pithy medulla; the petiole, suddenly re- 

 fracted backwards, is about 9 lines long, and much thickened 

 at its base ; the two lateral petiolets are 7 lines long, while the 

 intermediate one measures 18 lines; the terminal leaflet is 

 3 inches long, and 3 inches wide at its broadest part, whence it 

 is somewhat narrower towards the summit, which is round and 

 emarginated, with a mucronate point; the lateral leaflets are 

 2^ inches long and 2 J inches broad; the stipules are minute, 

 compared with those of the other species, and instead of being 

 orbicular, cordate, and sessile, are linear and tapering to a small 

 point at base ; they are 3 lines long, barely a line broad, strongly 

 reticulated, with a mucronately dentate border. The peduncle 

 is 1 1 inch long, somewhat slender below, and thickened towards 

 its summit ; about half an inch above its base it has a small, 

 single, acute bract, which has ciliated margins, and it bears at 

 its base a fascicle of similar bracts which rises out of a warty 



