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Div. 4. Pedunculi plurimi, aggregati, terminales, pedicellos pbirimos 

 umbellatos \-floros gerentes. 



7. Drimys Chilensis, D.C. Syst. i. 444, Prodr. i. 78; Dcless. 

 Icon. i. 22. tab. 83; Gay, Chile. D. Winteri, Hook, (non 

 Murr.) Bot. Mag. tab. 4800; — ramulis teretibus; foliis ob- 

 longo-obovatis, versus apicem obtusum gradatim angustioribus, 

 basi obtusiusculis et repente attenuatis, coriaceis, opacis, ner- 

 vis plurimis, eonspicuis, arcuato-nexis, et vix prominulis, 

 supra crebre leviter granuloso-nigulosis, granulis sub lente 

 puncto nigro signatis, punctis pcllucidis, subtus e punctulis 

 albis creberrimis glaucis, costa media prominentc, margine 

 cartilagineo recurvulo, petiolo valido subtereti canaliculato ; 

 pedunculis terminalibus 4-10, pedicellis 6-8 clongatis um- 

 bellatis e singulo ortis ; petalis 10 linearibus ; ovariis sapius 

 5.— Chile. 



Folia 3|-4i poll, longa, 1-1^ poll, lata, petiolus 5-6 bn. 

 longus; pedunculi in apice ramulorum aggregati, 3-9 lin. 

 longi, erassiusculi, compressi; pedicelli tenues 9-14 lin. 

 longi, 4-goni; calyx 2-sectilis, laciniis sequalibus, ovalibus, 

 concavis, pallidis, 2 lin. longis. Petala 10, linearia, expansa, 

 2-serialia, 5 lin. longa, H lin. lata. Stamina 35-40, exte- 

 riora breviora, interiora ]i lin. longa, 4-serialia. Ovaria 5, 

 rarius 6, gibba, 2 lin. longa. Baccse 5, pjTiformes, purpu- 

 rascentes, 4-4^ lin. longaj; semina circiter 12, cochleata, 

 nitidissima, atra, in pulpam parcam nidulantia*. 



There is a variety {latifolid) with much broader leaves, tole- 

 rably well represented in Uelesscrt's ' Icones' (i. tab. 83), — but 

 the petioles are too broad and flattened, the flowers much too 

 large, and the petals too flat, — a specimen of which I find in 

 Sir Wm. Hooker's herbarium, collected by Bridges ; the leaves 

 are 5j inches long, 2^ inches broad, the petiole being 6 lines in 

 length. 



8. Drimys Brasiliensis. D. Granatensis in partem, DC. Syst. 

 i. 444; Prodr. i. 78; St. Hil. PL Us. tab. 26, 27;— foliis 

 oblongis, acutiusculis, aut obtusis, basi cuncatis, supra nitidis, 

 leviter granuloso-rugosis, granulis concoloribus, subtus (ex- 

 ccpto margine revoluto et costa media promiuenti) albido- 

 glaucis, opacis, crasso-coriaccis, obsolete ncrvosis, ])etiololon- 

 giusculo, canaliculato; inflorcscentia terminali, pedunculis an- 

 cipitibus, longiusculis ; pedicellis sajpius 3, rarius 5, umbcl- 

 latis, compressis, longulis; petalis 12, oblongis, acutis; ova- 

 riis 5-7. — Brasilia f. 



* A figure of this species, with full generic details, is given in the ' Con- 

 tributions to Botany,' plate 2G c. 



t A drawing of this species is shown in the same work, plate 25 b. 



