52 Mr. J. Miers on the Tricuspidariez. 
dissepiments; the pyriform seeds are 2 lines long, 14 line in 
diameter *. 
5. CRINODENDRON. 
This name was given to the well-known Patagua of Chile 
by Molina, who described it so imperfectly that Ruiz and 
Pavon did not recognize it when they founded their genus 
Tricuspidaria upon the same plant. Molina gave Cavanilles 
a rough drawing, showing the flower and seed, made from 
memory, which the latter described and figured in his ‘ Dis- 
sertationes,’ the characters there assigned to it being altoge- 
ther erroneous. Sir William Hooker, in 1833, described a 
plant from the island of Chiloe, collected by Cuming, which 
he supposed to be the same as that incorrectly described by 
Molina and Cavanilles, and accordingly named it Crinodendron 
Patagua. In giving an outline of its generic character, he 
wrongly described the flower as having no calyx, which had 
fallen away from Cuming’s specimens; the inflection of the 
petals was not noticed; and the remarkable glands were not 
observed upon the disk, which was figured as being simply 
columnar. Gay, in his ‘ History of Chile,’ erroneously de- 
scribes the calyx; but he gives an account of the structure of 
the fruit, which was not known previously. Crinodendron 
cannot be said to have existed as a genus until Sir William 
Hooker first established it in his ‘ Botanical Miscellany ;’ and 
he, perceiving its near affinity to Tricuspidaria, placed it in 
the Llcocarpee, notwithstanding the then apparently discordant 
characters of its floral envelopes. De Candolle has not noticed 
the genus ; but Endlicher placed it in his tribe Tricuspidarie, 
in association with Vallea and Tricuspidaria. Bentham and 
Hooker, in their ‘ Nova Genera,’ have regarded it as a syno- 
nym of Tricuspidaria, evidently unaware of the characters 
which separate it from that genus. The following is an 
amended diagnosis, according to my own observations, as far 
as regards the floral structure; not having seen the ripe fruit, 
IT have copied the details in that respect from Gay’s work, 
where alone it is described. 
CRINODENDRON, Hook. (non Mol. nee Cavan.).—Flores her- 
maphroditi. Sepala 3, obovata, apice 2-dentata, dentibus 
rotundatis, equalia, parallele nervosa, utrinque adpresse 
pilosa, estivatione paulo imbricata, valde caduca. Petala 5, 
oblonga, sepalis plusquam duplo longiora, extus convexa, 
imo breviter saccata, lateribus inflexis, apice breviter et 
* A figure of this species, with full structural details, will be shown in 
my ‘ Contributions,’ plate 82. 
