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acute 3-dentata, carnosula, suberecta, extus glabra, intus in 
nervis parallelis prominulis pilosula, estivatione introflexo- 
plicata, dentibus valvatis, mox decidua. Déscus in forma 
gynophori late columnaris, centralis, extus in glandulas 10 
parallelas oblongo-ovatas inciso-sulcatus, coloratus, per- 
sistens. Stamina 20, equalia, summo disci cirea ovarium 
uniseriatim inserta ; filamenta tenuissime linearia, imo paulo 
latiora, subcurvata, brevissime hispida; anther longe line- 
ares, 4-sulcate, scabridule, geniculatim basifixe, apicibus 
conniventes, antice et postice profunde suleate, 2-loculares, 
vertice e poris 2 confluentibus brevissime 2-valvatim serius 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pollen minute globosum. 
Ovarium ovatum, disco stipitatum, sulcatum, velutino-pi- 
losum, 5-loculare; ovu/a 24-30 in quovis loculo, crebre 
3-seriatim axi centrali affixa: stylus subulatus, erectus, sub- 
tenuis, 5-sulcatus, subglaber; stigma obsoletum. Capsula 
(sec. cl. Gay) subrotunda, grosse bullata, coriacea, velutina, 
4—5-locularis, loculicide dehiscens ; semina in quovis loculo 
3-4, superposita, axi affixa, rotundo-pyriformia, subangu- 
lata; testa crustacea: embryo in albumine subtenui corneo- 
carnoso, orthotropus; cotyledones plani, suborbiculares, 
radicula brevi, supera. 
rbor Chilensis et Chiloensis, frondosa, sempervirens ; folia 
sublanceolata, glanduloso-serrata, breviter petiolata: flores 
speciost, aurantiact, majusculi, solitarti, axillares, longis- 
sime pedunculatt. 
Crinodendron Hookerianum, C. Gay, Flor. Chile, i. p. 341 ; 
—Crinodendron Patagua, Hook. (non Mol. nec Cav.) Bot. 
Mise. ii. p. 156, tab. 100 ;—Arbor frondosa ; foliis suboppo- 
sitis vel subternis, lanceolato-oblongis, utrinque obtusis aut 
subacutis, marginibus valderevolutis, remote serratis, dentibus 
longe glanduloso-mucronatis, supra pallide viridibus, subtus 
flavido-glaucis, in axillis nervorum fasciculato-barbatis, 
nervis arcuatis prominentibus, petiolo limbo 12-plo breviore 
costaque pubescente: floribus axillaribus, solitariis, cum 
pedunculo apice incrassato pubescente 2-3-plo longiore 
folia subeequantibus ; sepalis utrinque puberulis; petalis 
carnosulis, aurantiacis, glabris, sepalisque mox deciduis ; 
ovario flavide tomentoso ; stylo subulato, ad medium piloso; 
capsula ovato-globosa, majuscula, grosse bullata, tomentosa, 
4—5-suleata, 4-5-loculari, apice breviter loculicide dehis- 
cente; seminibus in loculis 3 vel 4, majusculis; testa crus- 
tacea.—In Chile prov. Valdivia et in insula Chiloe: v. s. in 
herb. meo, Mus. Brit., et Hook., Valdivia (Bridges, 613) ; 
Chiloé (Capt. King ; Cuming, 22). 
