﻿TAB. XVI 



DONATIA MaGELLANICA. 



Donatia fascicularis. Forst. Gen. t. 5. 

 Donatia Magellanica. Lam. III. t.b\. De 



p. 53. 



Magellanicum. Linn. Suppl. p. 115. 



Hab. Chonos Archipelago. Dec. 1834. C. Darwin^ Esq. 

 [n. 57). 



A rare and very interesting little antarctic plant, remarkable 

 for the varied number of the different parts of its flower. The 

 stems are scarcely 2 inches in height. The leaves are numerous 

 and densely imbricated, linear, hairy in the axils. Flowers ses- 

 sile, solitary. Gennen turbinate, incorporated with the tube of 



e calyx, bearing a small subulate bractea, and 4 minute, 

 remote, subulate calycine segments. Petals apparently on the 

 same series with the calycine segments, in the plant I examined 

 8 in number. Stamens 9. Styles „3. Cells of the ovary 3. 



Ovules SP.VPrnl- cncr.onrlo/1 fy/im tVio tr.r» nf fViP rpll. 



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Fig. 1. Plants : nat. size. f. 2. Flower. / 3. Do. From 

 which the petals are removed. / 4. Vertical section of the ger- 

 nien. / 5. Back, and/. 6, Front view of alea^:—maffni^ed. 



