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2. FRIESIA. 
This genus has certainly some points of resemblance to 
Aristotelia; but the many differential characters, already enu- 
merated, are too numerous to admit of the two genera being 
amalgamated together. Aristotelia is confined to Chile, while 
Friesia hitherto has been found only in insular positions, 
being distributed over New Zealand, Tasmania, and Hong 
Kong. Its generic features may be thus stated :— 
Friesta, DC.;—Aristotelia (én parte), Hook. fil. — Flores 
dioici aut polygami. Sepala 4, oblonga, utrinque sub- 
obtusa, eestivatione valvata, decidua. Petala 4, cuneato- 
oblonga, apice 3-loba, lobis oblongis, rotundatis, sepalis paulo 
longiora, estivatione imbricata, Discus e glandulis 4 
squamiformibus carnosulis sepalis oppositis tori margine 
enatis constans, pilosus. Stamdna 12, disco interiora, crebre 
uniserialia ; filamenta brevia, compresso- subulata, apice in- 
curva, pilosa; anthere oblong, 4-sulcate, in sinu cordato 
basifixe, 2- loculares, pilosule, primum poris 2 magnis api- 
calibus, demum rimis lateralibus dehiscentibus. Ovariwm 
in sterilibus, quadratim disciforme, depressum, in fertilibus 
ovatum, toro semiimmersum, 4-loculare; ovula in quoque 
loculo 2; stylus brevis, subulatus ; st¢gma obtusum, obscure 
4-lobum. Fructus exsuccus, baccitormis, globosus, pi- 
peris mole, 4-locularis, pericarpio crustaceo, dissepimentis 
membranaceis. Semina in quoque loculo 2, superposita, 
angulato-triquetra, angulo centrali hilo parvo medio affixa ; 
integumentum externum nitidum, crassiusculum, mesodermide 
gelatinosa mox siccata repletum, exappendiculatum ; ¢ntegu- 
mentum secundum osseum, extus valde tuberculatum, imo 
crassiore, et hinc foramine minuto in locellum parvum va- 
cuum pro raphe intrusa perforatum ; ¢ntegumentum internum 
submembranaceum, coloratum, chalaza magna orbiculari 
signatum ; a/bumen subovatum, imo truncatum, carnosum ; 
embryo inclusus ; cotyledonibus subtoliaceis, ovatis, radicula 
tereti ad micropylen spectante longioribus. 
Arbores Tasmanice, Nova-Zelandice et Chinenses ; folia sub- 
oppostta, ovata, serrata vel integra, petiolata ; flores ramoso- 
paniculati, vel intra bracteas solitarti, subracemiformes, 
axillares, parvt. 
1. Friesia peduncularis, DC. Prodr. i. 520; Bot. Mag. Ixxii. 
tab. 4246 ;—Eleocarpus peduncularis, Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 
15, tab. 155.—In Tasmania. 
2. Friesia racemosa, A.Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1. vol. iv. 
p. 23; Hook. Icon. vit. tab. 601 ;—Eleocarpus dicera, Vahl. 
