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2. Friesia. 



This genus has certainly some points of resemblance to 

 Aristotelia ; but the many differential characters, already enu- 

 merated, are too numerous to admit of the two genera being 

 amalgamated together. Aristotelia is confined to Chile, while 

 Friesia hitherto has been found only in insular positions, 

 being distributed over New Zealand, Tasmania, and Hong 

 Kong. Its generic features may be thus stated : — 



Feiesia, DC; — Aristotelia [in parte) ^ Hook. fil. — Flores 

 dioici aut polygami. Sepala 4, oblonga, utrinque sub- 

 obtusa, agstivatione valvata, decidua. Petala 4, cuneato- 

 oblonga, apice 3-loba, lobis oblongis, rotundatis, sepalis paulo 

 longiora, asstivatione imbricata. Discus e glandulis 4 

 squamiformibus carnosulis sepalis oppositis tori margine 

 enatis constans, pilosus. Stamina 12, disco interiora, crebre 

 uniserialia ; filamenta brevia, compresso-subulata, apice in- 

 curva, pilosa ; antherce oblongae, 4-sulcat9e, in sinu cordato 

 basifixge, 2-loculares, pilosulge, primum poris 2 magnis api- 

 calibus, demum rimis lateralibus dehiscentibus. Ovarium 

 in sterilibus, quadratim disciforme, depressum, in fertilibus 

 ovatum, toro semiimmersum, 4-loculare ; ovula in quoque 

 loculo 2 ; stylus brevis, subulatus ; stigma obtusum, obscure 

 4-lobum. Fructus exsuccus, bacciformis, globosus, pi- 

 peris mole, 4-locularis, pericarpio crustaceo, dissepimentis 

 membranaceis. Semina in quoque loculo 2, superposita, 

 angulato-triquetra, angulo centrali hilo parvo medio affixa ; 

 integumentum externum nitidum,crassiusculum,mesodermide 

 gelatinosa mox siccata repletum, exappendiculatum ; integu- 

 mentum secundum osseum, extus valde tuberculatum, imo 

 crassiore, et hinc foramine minuto in locellum parvum va- 

 cuum pro raphe intrusa perforatum ; integumentum internum 

 submembranaceum, coloratum, chalaza magna orbicular! 

 signatum ; albumen subovatum, imo truncatum, carnosum ; 

 embryo inclusus ; cotyledonibus subfoliaceis, ovatis, radicula 

 tereti ad micropylen spectante longioribus. 



Arbores Tasmanicce^ Nova-Zelandicce et Chinenses / folia sub- 

 opposita, ovatay serrata vel integra, petiolata ; flores ramoso- 

 paniculatij vel intra bracteas solitariij subracemijbrmesy 

 a>xillareSj parvi. 



1. Friesia peduncularis^ DC. Prodr. i. 520 ; Bot. Mag. Ixxii. 

 tab. 4246 ; — Elaeocarpus peduncularis. Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 

 15, tab. 155. — In Tasmania. 



2. Friesia racemosa^ A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1. vol.iv. 

 p. 23 ; Hook. Icon. vii. tab. 601 ; — Elaeocarpus dicera, Vahl. 



