50 Mr. J. Miers on the 'Tricuspidariez. 
altera rotundata ; ¢ntegumentum eaxternum nitidum, nigrum, 
carnosulum, sicco fragile et facile desiliente, raphen ab hilo 
ad chalazam in forma chord longitudinalis includens ; 
tunica secunda obovata, subossea, imo incrassata et truncata, 
hinc foramine intra locellum vacuum (pro raphes transitu) 
perforata, apice mamilla parva apiculata, levis, opaca, pal- 
lida; cntegumentum internum submembranaceum, fulvum, 
imo chalaza magna orbiculari notatum, apice micropyle 
punctatum: albumen obovatum, prope chalazam truncatum, 
carnosum ; embryo inclusus, fere equilongus, cotyledonibus 
ovatis, compressis, radicula tereti ad hilum spectante 4-plo 
longioribus. 
Arbores Chilenses, sempervirentes, frondose ; folia suboppo- 
sita, oblonga, glanduloso-serrata, breviter petiolata: flores 
speciost, albi, majusculi, solitarti, aaillares, longe pedun- 
culati. 
Tricuspidaria dependens, R. & P. Prodr. Fl. Per. 64, tab. 36, 
Syst. p.112; DC. Prodr. i. p. 520 ;—Tricuspis dependens, 
Pers. Ench, 1. p. 9;—Arbor frondosa, ramis divergentibus, 
alternis, rarius suboppositis, teretibus, glabris, ultimis bre- 
vibus, rigide spiniformibus et foliolosis ; foliis subalternis, 
rarius oppositis, subparvis, ovatis, utrinque obtusis, coria- 
ceis, marginibus subrevolutis, crebre glanduloso-serratis, 
supra leete viridibus, glaberrimis, subtus pulverulento-glau- 
cis; petiolo brevissimo, glabro, limbo 10-plo breviore : flori- 
bus axillaribus, solitarius, subbreviter pedunculatis, folio 
paulo brevioribus ; calyce irregulariter rupto, demum deci- 
duo; petalis subcoloratis, extus pulverulento-tomentosis : 
capsula disco stipitata, depresso-trigonoidea, levi, subcar- 
nosa, valvarum marginibus planis.—In Chile prov. austra- 
lioribus: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (spec. typ. Ruiz & Pav.) ; 
Concepcion (Dombey). 
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There can be no doubt in regard to the identity of this spe- 
cies, with which the following has been confounded. It is an 
evergreen tree, about 20 feet high, with a trunk about a foot 
in diameter, growing in moist places and on the sides of rivers 
in the provinces of Concepcion and Itata, with pendent branches 
which reach the ground and there sometimes take root; it has 
much smaller leaves than the following species, more diva- 
ricating and shorter branchlets (often like leaf-bearing spines), 
extremely short petioles, and smaller flgwers. The leaves are 
generally 9 lines, sometimes 15 lines long, 6-8 lines broad, on 
a petiole 1-14 line long; the peduncle is 8 or 9 lines long; 
the flowers have a very sweet smell; the calyx, 2 lines long 
and broad, becomes lacerated to the base, and soon falls off ; 
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