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the petals are darker, 6 or 7 lines long ; the filaments are 3 

 . lines, the anthers 2 lines long ; the ovary is conically oblong, 

 somewhat puberulous, and, together with its long pointed 

 subulate style, is 5 lines long ; the capsule is 5 lines high, 7 

 lines broad, smooth and subfleshy (not transversely corruga- 

 ted), 3-valved, the margins of the valves being straight and 

 flattened. 



2. Tricuspidaria Patagua^ nob.; — Tricuspidaria dependens, 

 Hook, (non R. (S) P.) Bot. Misc. iii. p. 156 ; Grai/j CMle^ i. 

 p. 338 ; — Crinodendron Patagua, Mol. [non Hook.) Hist. 

 Chile, pp. 146 & 290 ; Cav. Diss. 300, tab. 158 ;— Arbor 

 frondosa, ramis elongatis, subascendentibus, teretibus, stria- 

 telKs, cinereis, brevissime tomentellis ; foliis saepius oppo- 

 sitis, oblongo vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo cuneatis, apice 

 rotundatis aut obtusis, coriaceis, marginibus subrevolutis, 

 sinuato-serratis, dentibus glanduloso-mucronulatis, supra 

 pallide viridibus, glaberrimis, nitidis, subtus glauces- 

 centibus et prsesertim in nervis prominulis arcuatim nexis 

 parce puberulis, petiolo canaliculato, flavido-pubescente, 

 limbo 8-plo breviore : floribus solitariis, axillaribus, longe 

 pedunculatis, folio paulo brevioribus ; calyce campanulato, 

 margine demum lacerato, ab ovario in forma annulari sece- 

 dente pedunculum circumdante prolapso ; petalis niveis, 

 camosis, majusculis, intus usque ad medium valde cari- 

 natis, marginibus introplicatis ; capsula disco stipitata, 

 ovata, utrinque acuta, subtrialata, marginibus valde un 

 dulatis, coriacea, transversim corrugata, seminibus nigris, 

 nitentibus. — In Chile prov. centralibus : v. v. et sice. (Brid- 

 ges, 159). 



This is a handsome tree, about 30 feet high, also evergreen, 

 growing in drier situations in all the central provinces, 

 extending even into the deep valleys of the Cordillera : it 

 produces a timber of much utility and of considerable size — 

 according to Molina, sometimes 7 feet in diameter; but I 

 never heard of any approaching so large a size. Its leaves 

 are from 1^-21 inches long, 8-12 lines broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long ; the peduncle in flower is 8-10 lines long, in 

 fruit 12 lines long, gradually thickening upwards, and 5-sul- 

 cate ; the calyx is 1^ line long, 2 lines in diameter, seceding 

 from the summit of the pedicel and remaining strung upon it, 

 in the form of a fimbriated annular disk ; the petals are 7-8 

 lines long ; the capsule is 6 lines long and broad, pointed at 

 each extremity, opening upon the sharp, sutural, much undu- 

 lated edges of the valves, which, curving back horizontally, 



show the seeds attached to each side of the margin of the 



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