inserted at base of corolla: filaments of different lengths, 
slightly exceeding corolla, filiform, 8-4 em. long, adnate 
tor 8 mm., basally pilose, glabrous above, bright pink: 
anthers bilocular, elliptic, longitudinally dehiscent, 2 
mm. long, brownish; pollen ash grey, tricolporate. 
Ovary ovoid, basally gibbous, bilocular, with numerous 
anatropous ovules attached on axile placenta: style fili- 
form, equalling corolla, 8 cm. long, pink: stigma short. 
semicircular, slightly bilobulate, bright green. Fruit a 
fleshy berry, globose, 2 cm. in diameter, apiculate, pale 
green to yellow. Seeds numerous, somewhat reniform 
or irregular, often flattened ventrally, 2 mm. in diameter, 
albuminous: testa thick, reticulate-pitted, dark brown to 
black. Embryo cylindrical, shghtly curved. 
Cute. Cuitor: In sylvis montanis, pr. Ancud, flores coccinei, in- 
colis Taio, Jul.m. W. Lechler S80 (type, GOET, not seen; photo- 
graph of type, GH; isotype, K).—Chiloé; 1848, Lobb s.n.(K).— 
Ancud, frutex venenosissimus: 1861, Philippi s.n.(K). 
Lianguinur: Along roadsides and in pastures between El Nadi and 
Estero Manio, Cordillera de Zarao: 22-I11-1969, 7. Plowman 2609 
(ECON, GH, K).—Tree 10 m. tall in woods behind church in E] 
Nadi, Cordillera de Zarao, 300 m. elev. : 23-III-1969, Plowman 2613 
(ECON, GH, K). 
Osorno: San Juan de la Costa; 1-X-1988, C. Rudolph 5507 (Her- 
barium, Universidad Austral, Valdivia=VALD).—San Juan de la 
Costa; 23-11-1939, J.L. Morrison 17613(GH, K).—Aleucapi; 14-I1- 
194¢4, Rudolph 5566(VALD).—Huitrapulli; 30-1-1949, Rudolph 5595 
(VALD). About 10 mi, east of ocean on road to Osorno; 29-I-1958 
WJ. Eyerdam 10528 (US). 
Vatpivia: Valdivia, Philippi s.n. (G, not seen; photograph, GH)— 
Valdivia; 1868, Pearce s.n. (K).—San José, £.C. Reeed s.n. (K).— 
Along the shore of a stream, La Ensenada, Corral; 20-IX-1931. 
H. Gunekel 3750 (Herbarium, Facultad de Quimica y Farmacia, Univ. 
de Chile, Santiago=FARM). La Ensenada; 16-X-19385, Gunckel 79 
(K).—Chaihuin; XII-1936, Gunckel 17824 (FARM ).—Bima District, 
west of La Union, Cordillera de la Alerce, 500-900 m.; 11-II-1958, 
Eyerdam 10640(US),—Cordillera de la Costa near Valdivia; X-1962, 
kK. Kubitski 37 1 (VALD).—Along road from La Unién to EF] Mirador, 
500-700 m., growing at edge of forest and in pastures; 30-I1I-1969, 
Plowman 2643 (EKCON, GH, K). 
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