218 Mr. J. Miers on Aixtoxicum. 
circa ovarium sterile depressum inserta: anthere conniventes, 
subglobose, basi cordatze, dorso affixee, 2-lobee, lobis adjunctis, 
subcoriaceis, utrinque rima obliqua demum poriformi latera- 
liter dehiscentibus. Staminodia 5 (rarissime 6), staminibus 
alternantia, et cum iis hypogyna, carnosula, cuneatim sub- 
deltoidea, summo sub-bilabiata, labiis emarginatis, erecto- 
patentia, glaberrima. Ovarium rudimentarium, discum par- 
vum depressum subplanum mentiens, s¢ylo obsoleto mammz- 
formi notatum, dense lepidotum.—Fwm. Bracteola, sepala, 
et petala maris. Stamina 5, sterilia, hypogyna, ovario ad- 
pressa, persistentia; jilamenta linearia, compressa, erecta, 
imo paulo curvata, apice obtusatim emarginata, intus glan- 
dulis 2 polline destitutis apiculata. Staminodia 5, eum sta- 
minibus alternatim hypogyna, iis dimidio breviora, et duplo 
latiora, erecta, compressa, extus sulco notata, apice emar- 
ginata, persistentia. Ovarium ovatum, subgibbum, petalis 
paulo brevius, crebriter lepidotum, 1-loculare ; ovula 2, col- 
lateralia, summo linee parietalis prominentis suspensa. Stylus 
subtenuis, teres, glaber, ovarii tertia parte longitudinis, valde de- 
flexus, Stigma breviter 2-furcatum, furcis acutis. Drupa exsucea, 
inversim obovata, sublepidota, stylo marcido apiculata: puta- 
men coriaceo-chartaceum, 1-loculare, 2-spermum. Semina 
plano-convexa, ex apice pendula; integumenta membranacea, 
imo chalaza parva signata. Embryo in summo albuminis car- 
nosi et ejus dimidio longitudine immersus; cotyledonibus 
foliaceis, subdeltoideo-cordatis ; radicula tereti, subulata, sub- 
equilonga, summo spectante. 
Arbor Chilensis: folia alterna aut subopposita, oblonga, supra 
glabra, subtus lepidota, breviter petiolata, exstipulata; racemi 
axillares, folio breviores, leproso-lepidoti : flores parvi. 
1, AAxtoxicum punctatum, R. & P. Syst. Veg. Per. p. 260; 
Prodr. Flor. Per. et Chil. p. 131, tab. 21; Hook. Icon. i. 
tab. 12; Gay, Chile, v. 348;—ramulis teretibus, griseo- 
opacis, nigro-punctulatis, junioribus rufescentibus ; foliis sub- 
alternis vel oppositis, oblongis, utrinque subacutis, aut obtusis, 
subcoriaceis, supra in junioribus sparsim lepidotis, in adultis 
glabris, subtus e squamulis peltatis, radiatim nervosis, mar- 
gine ciliatis dense griseo-furfuraceis et ferrugineo-lepidotis; 
petiolo brevi; racemis simplicibus, axillaribus, folio paulo bre- 
vioribus, floribus parvis.—Chile, v. s. in herb. meo et aliorum e 
Quillota (Bridges, 505) ; Cauquenes; Concepcion (Macrae et 
Harvey) ; Valdivia (Bridges, 558) : Chile (Cuming) ¢; Maule 
(Germain) 9. 
A tree of moderate size, growing sometimes to the height of 
40 feet, found in most of the central and southern provinces of 
