o/'certahi Genera in the Flora Peruviana. S79 



dispermis. Seniina conipressa, lutesceutia, basi interiore iimbilico in- 

 structa, hinc carinata, iiide plana, latere exteriore convexiuscula, sul- 

 cata : testa simplex, membranacea, nucleo arete adhaerens : albumen du- 

 rum, cellulosum ! Embryo parvus, axilis. Radicula ab umbilico remota. 

 rianta (Chilensis) suffmticosa, per arborum truncos, more Hederse scanilens 

 et radicans. Caulis teres, inferne sqiiamis (foliorum rudimentis ) emarcidis 

 glumiiceis inslrttctus. Rami tetragoni, Jiex'uosi, convoluii, angulis elevatis. 

 Folia alternalim disticha, brevissime peliolata, lanceolata, integerrima, apice 

 miicronulo calloso, cartilaginea, glabra, Q-\2-nervia, petiolorum contortione 

 subresnpinata ! poUicaria v. bipollicaria : liervis striclis, paratlelis, utrinque 

 prominuHs, ramulis transversis, connevis. Flores in ramidorum apice squa- 

 mis (foliis ahortivis) scarioso-membranaceis, vaginantibus, fuscis munitontm, 

 axillares, subgeminati, pedunculati. redunculi unijlori, filiformes, medio 

 artieulati, unciales. Perianthium albido-lutescens, uti cum staminibus stylo- 

 qiie panctis lineolisque rubris nntalum. Bacca rubra, magnitudine Cerasi 

 s^'lveslris. 



1. L. radicans, R^dz et Pavon Fl. Peruv. et Chil. 3. p. 66. t. 298. 



Hab. in Chili sylvis et nemoribus ad Colium et Palomares, Ruiz et 

 Pavon. F7 Floret Septembri et Octobri. (V. s. sp. in Herb. 

 Lamb.) 



Obs. Luzuriaga, Br. genere omnino diversa a planta Chilensi. In L. cy- 

 mosa, Br. foliola jieriaiithii subjequalia, filamenla simplicia subcapillaria, 

 loculi antherarum vix basi producti, stylus filiformis plurimiuii graci- 

 lior, pedunculus sub tlore articulatus, testa seminis atra Crustacea. 



In Callixene, Jtiss. cui proxime affinis, perianthium 6-phyllum, pa- 

 tens, deciduum, foliolis exterioribus paruni angustioribus, stamina basi 

 foliorum inserta, alternis parum brevioribus, filamenta dilatata compla- 

 nata, apice attenuata acuminata, antherte lineares incumbentes, ovarium 

 globosum triloculare membranaceuni, ovulis in axi loculorum simplici 

 ordine numerosis, bacca globosa rubra pisi magnitudine subdisperma, 

 semina ovoidea, hinc gibbosa, fulvescentia erecta apice chalaza tuberculi- 

 formi instructa, testa simplex teiuiissime membranacea leviter nigulosa, 

 albumen magnum corneum solidum, embryo in regione umbiliculi cylin- 

 draceus, albuminis dimidio vix longitudine Eequalis, curvulus basi ob- 

 tusus. 



LAPAGERIA, Ruiz et Pavon. 



Sysi. Linn. HEXANDMA MONOGYNIA. 

 Ord. Nat. SMILACE.^, Br. 



Perianthium 6-phyllum, tubulato-campanulatum, petaloideum deciduum ; 

 foliolis 3 exterioribus lanceolatis, acuminatis; interioribus longioribus, 

 cuneato-oblongis, mucronulatis, nervosis, nervis reticulato - ramosis. 

 Stamina 6, insequalia, foliolorum perianthii basi inserta ; exteriora 3, bre- 

 viora : filavtenta subulata, glabra : antlierce longse, basi subsagittatii in- 

 sertse, erectse, biloculares, ajjice obtusae : loculis parallelis, longitudinali- 

 ter dehiscentibus, basi paull5 productis. Stylus elongatus, triqueter, 

 glaber. Stigma clavatum, obsolete trilobum. Bacca oblonga, obtuse tri- 

 gona, trisuica, trilocularis, polysperma. Semina angulata. 



Planta (Chilensis) suffrulicosa, icandens. Caulis teres, flemiosus, minute tuber 

 culatus, inferne squamis (foliis abortivis) scariosis plurimis instructus. Ha- 

 muli via: enati squamis ovatis acuminatis fuscis imbricati. Folia alterna 

 petiolata, cordato-oblonga, acuminata, intgerrima, b-nervia, coriacea, glabra, 

 margins Icevia, cartilaginea, exsiccatione reticulato-venosa ! sesqui v. tripolli. 

 caria. Petioli brevissimii, supra plani, basi dilatati. Flores in ramulorum 



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