190 Mr. J. Miers on a new species of Lardizabala, 



Dorabey. Arauco is a province bordering on that of Concepcion, 

 and sepai'ated from it by the river Biobio. 



The following is offered as an amended character of the 

 genus : — 



Lardizabala, R. & P. — Flores polygamo-dioici. Masc. *S^e- 

 pala Q, alternatim biseriata, carnosula^ exteriora ovata, sesti- 

 vatione valvata, interiora angustiora, spathulata, acuminata. 

 Petala 6, biseriata, oblongo- vel lineari-lanceolata, acutiuscula, 

 exteriora paullo latiora. Stamina 6 ; filamenta in tubum 

 monadelphum coalita ; antherce extrorsse, adnatse, 2-loculares, 

 connectivo breviter apiculatse. Ovaria 3, rudimentaria, plus 

 minusve attenuata. Fern. Sepala 6, biseriata, crassiuscula, 

 campanulatim expansa, exteriora oblonga, versus basin at- 

 tenuata, con cava, interiora alternantia angustiora, imo spathu- 

 lata. Petala 6, sepalis triplo breviora, biseriatim alterna, 

 lineari-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata. Stamina 6, libera, 

 hypogyna, gynophoro brevi inserta, petalis dimidio breviora ; 

 filamenta teretiuscula ; antherae eorundem longitudine ob- 

 longse, 2-loculares, connectivo apiculatse, effoetse. Ovaria 3*, 

 teretia, cylindrica, medio extus gibbosa, unilocularia : ovula 

 numerosissima, ad placentas 6 longitudinaliter, parietales pro- 

 minentes horizontaliter affixa, campylotropa. Stylus brevis, 

 obtusus, ovario continuus. Stigma sessile, glandulosum. 

 Bacca 3, majusculse, cylindricse, torulosje, stylo apiculatse, 

 polyspermse. Semina subovata, gibba, compressa, fusca, in 

 pulpam mucilagineam nidulantia, hilo infra medium margi- 

 nal!, parvulo, foramine pertuso : tunica externa testacea, fra- 

 gilis; integumenta propria dupla, subadhserentia (exterior! 

 subcarnoso raphigeri, interiori submembranaceo), albumen 

 profundissime excavatum arete vestientia, et circum podo- 

 spermium magnum internum fungosum compresso-ovatum 

 raphide tubuloso aimulari cinctum configurata : albumen 

 huic modo hippocrepice et profunda excavatum, acetabuli- 

 forme, magnum, carnosum : embryo marginem versus infe- 

 riorem acetabuli oblique inclusus, parvus, subteres, radicula 

 cylindrica, infera, cotyledonibus corapressis centripetis sequi- 

 longa et sequilata. 



Frutices Chilenses scandentes, foliis alternis, ternatis vel biter- 

 natis, petiolaiis, foliolis integris, vel sinuato-dentatis, coriaceis, 

 nitidis, glabris, vel puree pubesccntibus, petiolo refracto, imo 

 stipulis foliaceis, scepe r-otundatis et majusculis donato ; pedun- 

 culo glabro e gemma squamiformi axillari orto, in masculis 

 plurijloro, floribus breviter pedicellatis, racemosis, bracteolatis, 



* Intcrdum 6 sccuntliun DeCundollc, Syst. i. 512, sed dubia. 



