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tially from L. biteimata. I do not remember to have seen the 

 male flower, at least I have no fragment or note of it : the 

 flowers in my specimen are female, with sterile stamens, and 

 they appear to me larger than in the other species. In the 

 ordinary species the leaves, as before stated, are always biter- 

 nate, or ternarily divided into nine leaflets, the lateral ones 

 being inequilateral and sessile, generally very glabrous and 

 polished ; all the leaflets are more or less acuminated at base, 

 and often at their summit, are at least twice as long as broad, 

 triplinerved, the lateral nervures springing at some distance 

 from the petiole, are thicker in texture, opake and somewhat 

 coriaceous, while the primai-y and secondary petioles are longer 

 in proportion. On the other hand, in my plant the leaves are 

 simply trifoliate or divided into only three leaflets, as in Boquila ; 

 the leaflets are much larger in size, nearly as broad as long, 

 conspicuously cordate and broadly truncated at base and obtuse 

 at their summit, with a terminal mucro ; they are all equila- 

 teral, quintuplinerved, the nervures originating at the base ; they 

 are very reticulated, much thinner in texture, more transparent, 

 and are deeply sinuated on the margin, the nervures in each 

 salient angle (of which there are six or eight on each side) ter- 

 minating in a long cuspidate excurreut point : the lateral leaflets 

 are both petiolulated ; the main petiole and three petiolets are 

 comparatively shorter, and they, as well as the nerves and veins 

 beneath, are all pubescent. In another specimen gathered at 

 the same spot, and accompanying the fruit, the leaves are much 

 smaller, also simply 3-foliate, the leaflets being more regularly 

 obovate, slightly cordate, very opake, coriaceous, quite smooth, 

 with thickened margins, which are almost entire or finely crenu- 

 lated ; in other respects it coi'responds with the above-mentioned 

 specimen, and is evidently taken from the end of a branch, as 

 its stem is thin and very twining. 



In L. biternata the stipulaiy leaves are large, orbicular, and 

 sessile; in my plant only one remains, which is very small, 

 linear, and attenuated at its base. The fruit is similar in size 

 and shape to that of L. biternata, as figured in the Prodromus 

 of the ' Flora Peruviana.^ The plant I have described is known 

 at Concon as the Coguil, being the same name as that given in 

 Concepcion and the southern pi'ovinces of Chile to the plant of 

 Ruiz and Pavon. 'Coguil' is properly the name of its edible 

 fruit, ' Coguil-boqui ' that of the plant, the word ' boqui ' being 

 applied alike to all scandcnt shrubs ; the names attributed to it 

 of ' Aguilboquil ' and ' Guilboquil ' by Dombey and La Perouse 

 are certainly typical errors. In most botanical works, L. tri- 

 ternata is said to be a native of Peru, at Arauco ; but this is a 

 mistake common to most of the specimens collected in Chile by 



