50 Mr. J. Miers on the Tricuspidarieje. 



altera rotundata ; integumentum externum nitidum, nigrum, 

 carnosulum, sicco fragile et facile desiliente, raphen ab liilo 

 ad chalazam in forma chordge longitudinalis includens ; 

 tunica secunda obovata^ subossea, imo incrassata et truncata, 

 hinc foramine intra locellum vacuum (pro raphes transitu) 

 perforata, apice mamilla parva apiculata, lasvis, opaca, pal- 

 lida ; integumentum internum submembranaceum, fulvum, 

 imo chalaza magna orbiculari notatum, apice micropyle 

 punctatum : albumen obovatum, prope chalazam truncatum, 

 carnosum ; emhryo inclusus, fere gequilongus, cotyledonihus 

 ovatis, compressis, radicula tereti ad hilum spectante 4-plo 

 longioribus. 

 Arbores Chilenses^ semper virenteSj frondoscB ; folia suhoppo- 

 sitaj oMongaj glanduloso-serrataj hreviter petiolata : flores 

 speciosij alhij majusculi^ solitarii^ axillares^ longe pedun- 

 culati, 



1. Tricuspidaria dependens^ R. & P. Prodr. Fl.Per. 64, tab. 36, 

 Syst. p. 112 ; DC. Prodr. i. p. 520 ; — Tricuspis dependens, 

 Pers. Ench. ii. p. 9 ; — Arbor frondosa, ramis divergentibus, 

 alternis, rarius suboppositis, teretibus, glabris, ultimis bre- 

 vibus, rigide spiniformibus et foliolosis ; foliis subalternis, 

 rarius oppositis, subparvis, ovatis, utrinque obtusis, coria- 

 ceis, marginibus subrevolutis, crebre glanduloso-serratis, 

 supra Isete viridibus, glaberrimis, subtus pulverulento-glau- 

 cis ; petiolo brevissimo, glabro, limbo 10-plo breviore : flori- 

 bus axillaribus, solitariis, subbreviter pedunculatis, folio 

 paulo brevioribus ; calyce irregulariter rupto, demum deci- 

 duo ; petalis subcoloratis, extus pulverulento-tomentosis : 

 capsula disco stipitata, depresso-trigonoidea, laevi, subcar- 

 nosa, valvarum marginibus planis. — In Chile prov. austra- 



^ lioribus : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (spec. typ. Ruiz & Pav.) ; 

 Concepcion (Dombey). 



There can be no doubt in regard to the identity of this spe- 

 cies, with which the following has been confounded. It is an 

 evergreen tree, about 20 feet high, with a trunk about a foot 

 in diameter, growing in moist places and on the sides of rivers 

 in the provinces of Concepcion and Itata, with pendent branches 

 which reach the ground and there sometimes take root ; it has 

 much smaller leaves than the following species, more diva- 

 ricating and shorter branchlets (often like leaf-bearing spines), 

 extremely short petioles, and smaller flowers. The leaves are 

 generally 9 lines, sometimes 15 lines long, 6-8 lines broad, on 

 a petiole 1-1 j line long; the peduncle is 8 or 9 lines long; 

 the flowers have a very sweet smell ; the calyx, 2 lines long 

 and broad, becomes lacerated to the base, and soon falls off; 



