FLORA DE CHILE. 207 



The general get up of the work leaves a good deal to be desired. 

 For a publication of tliis importance better paper should have been 

 used, and here and there more careful editing is certainly necessary. 

 Prefixed to each of the genera we have an analytical key, which is 

 of considerable assistance in the identification of the species and 

 which was wanting in Gay's Flora. Occasionally these keys seem 

 to want rather more care bestowed upon them : thus, on p. 215, 

 in the genus I'alava, the fourth species with " Hojas superiores bi- 

 pinnatifidas," surely ought to be "dissecta " and not "pinnatifida." 

 The authors do not retain the original spelling, Palaua, in place of 

 the more recent PaJava, the genus being named in compliment to 

 Antonio Palau y Verdera, a professor of botany at Madrid. We 

 doubt the advisability of transferring Malva Beichei Phil, to Sida : 

 and we also doubt whether Anoda ! strictijiora Steudel is really a 

 species of Anoda. It is founded on Bertero No. 406. When in 

 Paris, a year or two ago, we were enabled, through the kindness 

 of Mens. Drake del Castillo, to see a portion of Steudel 's herbarium, 

 and the specimen there (Bertero, No. 406) was certainly either 

 identical witb, or very closely allied to, Modiola multijida Moench. 

 There may, however, be more than one plant bearing this number. 

 We are glad to see the authors have adopted a suggestion made 

 some time ago in this Journal, by placing the genus Tarawa Phil, 

 as synonymous with Malrastrum. There can be little doubt that 

 this is its correct position. The authors have not dealt with quite 

 all the plants about which information is desirable. In Mal- 

 vace(F, for instance, what has become of Ciistaria .^ Yidali Phil., 

 C. hastata Phil., C Larranagoi Phil., Spharalcea pUcata Phil., and 

 5. arenaria Phil., all species published by Dr. Philippi in 1893, in 

 the Anales de la Univeisidad .- 



The difl'erence between the present Flora and its predecessor of 

 sixty years ago is strikingly shown if we take any large genus such 

 as (Kvalis: in the older work forty-one species were enumerated, 

 while in the present volume there are ninety. 



So many points occur to one in connection with a striking flora 

 like that of Chili, that it is impossible even to mention them in a brief 

 notice. A careful comparison of the Chilian flora with that of the 

 adjoining Argentine Republic has been made by Dr. R. A. Philippi, =•= 

 wherein the points of similarity and dissimilarity are brought out. 

 Thus in the Argentine we have many natural orders which have 

 no Chilian representatives, and vice rersa: — Menispermacea:, Meliacfip, 

 oiarinecF, Ma<inoliare(B, &c., are present in the Argentine but not in 

 Chili ; and Droseracete, Frankeniacea, MonhniacecB, Malesherhiacece, 

 &c., are to be found in Chili and not in the Argentine. Curious 

 results are obtained if certain large genera are taken ; thus 

 Dr. Philippi states f there are seventy-five species of (Kvalis in the 

 Argentine and seventy -nine in Chili, while in ]'iola there is only a 

 single species in the Argentine but forty-eight in Chili. We await 



* "Floras i Faunas de Chili i Argentina,' por R. A. Philippi, Anales de la 

 I'niversidad, Ixxxiv. entegra 15. 



t Dr. Reiche gives ninety species of O.ralix for Cliili and tifty-three species 

 of Viola. 



