42 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



longiora, marginibus sinuato-undulatis, vel subdentatis, nervis tenuibus reticulatis, in axillis gemmas floresve 

 gerentia. Flores valde immaturi tantum mihi visi, parvi, brevissime pedunculati ; pedunculi basi v. supra basin 

 bibracteolati, bracteolis parvis lanceolatis acutis. Calycis tubus oblongus ; limbus inaequaliter 5-lobus, tubo 

 brevior, lobis ovato-subulatis acutis, superiore majore basi utrinque et duobus proximis basi extus auriculati?, 

 2 iuferioribus minoribus. Corolla profunde 5-loba, lobis aestivatione valvatis virido-purpureis. Stamina lobis 

 corolla? alterna, filamentis crassis, antheris cobserentibus, 2 superioribus ad apicem 3-4 setosis, seta intermedia 

 longiore. Ovarium biloculare, loculis multiovulatis ; ovulis anatropis, funiculis brevibus. Stylus apice bifidus, 

 lobis brevibus extus puberulis v. pilosis. Baccu subglobosa, obscure bisulcata, v. biloba, lobo superiore majore 

 basi gibboso, segmentis calycinis coronata, sub 4 lin. longa, bilocularis, parietibus carnosis rubro-purpureis 

 venosis, dissepimento carnoso ad medium incrassato placentifero. Semina numerosissima, funiculis brevibus 

 dissepimento adnata, ascendentia, parva, ovalia, testa Crustacea atra nitida, nunc brunnea, seu castanea, albumine 

 carnoso. Embryo minimus, ortbotropus, pyriformis, radicula tereti crassa obtusa hilo proxima, cotyledonibus 

 brevibus. 



A very distinct species, of which I much regret that I have not more satisfactory specimens which would 

 allow of an examination of the expanded flowers. The peduncles of the bud and of the berry are so remark- 

 ably short, as at once to point out this as very distinct from any others of the genus ; and it further differs from 

 all the other round-leaved species in the size and obscure toothing of the leaves, their very short petioles, and 

 in the red-purple colour of the berries. It is most nearly allied to the P. angulata (vide infra). 



Having had the opportunity of examining some species of Pratia in Herb. Hooker, I shall here append the 

 characters of all that are known to me as certainly belonging to this genus* ; besides which, there are several 



* PRATIA, Gaud. 



§ I. Lobis calycinis 3 v. pluribus basi auriculatis. 



1. P. arenaria, Hook. fil. ; vide supra. 

 Hab. Auckland Islands. 



2. P. Cunninghamii ; ramis ascendentibus, foliis subdistichis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis v. oblongo-ovatis 

 obtusis obtuse repando-serratis coriaceo-carnosis, pedunculis folio -1— ^ brevioribus, bacca ovato-globosa submem- 

 branacea, seminibus testa coriacea pallide brunnea areolata v. granulata. — Isolobus ? Cunninghamii, Alph. DeC. 

 in Prodr. vol. vii. p. 354. Lobelia inundata, Cunn. MSS. (non Br.) an Lob. concolor, Brown, Prodr. p. 563 ? 

 Pratia erecta, Gaud, in Freycin. Voy. Bot. p. 456 ? 



Var. (3. longipes ; pedunculis folio sequilongis longioribusve. 



Hab. New Holland; morasses on the banks of the M c Q_uarrie River: Frazer. Lowlands about the 

 Hunter River ; A. Cunningham. 



(i. Inundated banks of the Lacblan River; A. Cunningham. 



§ II. Lobis calycinis basi nudis, seu auriculis nullis. 



3. P. repens, Gaud. ; ramis repentibus radicantibus, foliis erectis longe petiolatis carnosis subcordato-orbi- 

 culatis sinuato-dentatis, pedunculis crassis petiolo requilongis bi- tri-bracteolatis, bacca globosa carnosa, semini- 

 bus pallide fuscis. — P. repens, Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 103. Voy. Freyc. pp. 134 and 456. t. 79. D'Urv. 

 Fl. Ins. Mai. in M£m. Linn. Soc. Paris, vol. iv. p. 608. Alph. DeC. in Prodr. vol. vii. p. 340. 



Hab. Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, and S. Chili, on the east and west side of the Andes. 



I have not retained the var. Urvil/eana, Alph. DeC. 1. c, because in my specimens the calycine segments are 



