Mr. J. Miers on the Tricuspidariex. 51 
the petals are darker, 6 or 7 lines long; the filaments are 3 
lines, the anthers 2 lines long ; the ovary is conically oblong, 
somewhat puberulous, anc, together with its long pointed 
subulate style, is 5 lines long; the capsule is 5 lines high, 7 
Imes broad, smooth and subfleshy (not transversely corruga- 
ted), 3-valved, the margins of the valves being straight and 
flattened. 
2. Tricuspidaria Patagua, nob.;—Tricuspidaria dependens, 
Hook. (non R. & P.) Bot. Misc. iii. p. 156; Gay, Chile, i. 
p- 338 ;—Crinodendron Patagua, Mol. (non Hook.) Hist. 
Chile, pp. 146 & 290; Cav. Diss. 300, tab. 158 ;—Arbor 
frondosa, ramis elongatis, subascendentibus, teretibus, stria- 
tellis, cinereis, brevissime tomentellis; foliis seepius oppo- 
sitis, oblongo vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo cuneatis, apice 
rotundatis aut obtusis, coriaceis, marginibus subrevolutis, 
sinuato-serratis, dentibus glanduloso-mucronulatis, supra 
pallide viridibus, glaberrimis, nitidis, subtus glauces- 
centibus et presertim In nervis prominulis arcuatim nexis 
parce puberulis, petiolo canaliculato, flavido-pubescente, 
limbo 8-plo breviore: floribus solitariis, axillaribus, longe 
pedunculatis, folio paulo brevioribus; calyce campanulato, 
margine demum lacerato, ab ovario in forma annulari sece~ 
dente pedunculum circumdante prolapso; petalis niveis, 
carnosis, majusculis, intus usque ad medium valde cari- 
natis, marginibus introplicatis; capsula disco stipitata, 
ovata, utrinque acuta, subtrialata, marginibus valde un 
dulatis, coriacea, transversim corrugata, seminibus nigris, 
nitentibus.—In Chile prov. centralibus: v. v. et sicc. (Brid- 
ges, 159). 
This is a handsome tree, about 30 feet high, also evergreen, 
growing in drier situations in all the central provinces, 
extending even into the deep valleys of the Cordillera: it 
produces a timber of much utility and of considerable size— 
according to Molina, sometimes 7 feet in diameter; but I 
never heard of any approaching so large a size. Its leaves 
are from 13-24 inches long, 8-12 lines broad, on a petiole 
3 lines long; the peduncle im flower is 8-10 lines long, in 
fruit 12 lines long, gradually thickening upwards, and 5-sul- 
cate; the calyx is 14 line long, 2 lines in diameter, seceding 
from the summit of the pedicel and remaining strung upon it, 
in the form of a fimbriated annular disk; the petals are 7-8 
lines long; the capsule is 6 lines long and broad, pointed at 
each extremity, opening upon the sharp, sutural, much undu- 
lated edges of the valves, which, curving back horizontally, 
show the seeds attached to each side of the margin of the 
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