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acute 3-dentata, carnosula, suberecta, extus glabra, intus in 

 nervis parallelis prominulis pilosula, sestivatione introflexo- 

 plicata, dentibus valvatis, mox decidua. Discus in forma 

 gynophori late columnaris, centralis, extus in glandulas 10 

 parallelas oblongo-ovatas inciso-sulcatus, coloratus, per- 

 sistens. Stamina 20, ^qualia, summo disci circa ovarium 

 uniseriatim inserta ; jilamenta tenuissime linearia, imo paulo 

 latiora, subcurvata, brevissime liispida ; antherm longe line- 

 ares, 4-sulcatae, scabridulae, geniculatim basifixse, apicibus 

 conniventes, antice et postice profunde sulcatse, 2-loculares, 

 vertice e poris 2 confluentibus brevissime 2-valvatim serius 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pollen minute globosum. 

 Ovarium ovatum, disco stipitatum, sulcatum, velutino-pi- 

 losum, 5-loculare; ovula 24-30 in quovis loculo, crebre 

 3~seriatim axi centrali affixa : stylus subulatus, erectus, sub- 

 tenuis, 5-sulcatus, subglaber; stigma obsoletum. Capsula 

 (sec. cl. Gay) subrotunda, grosse buUata, coriacea, velutina, 

 4-5-locularis, loculicide dehiscens ; semina in quovis loculo 

 3-4, superposita, axi affixa, rotundo-pyriformia, subangu- 

 lata ; testa Crustacea : embryo in albumine subtenui corneo- 

 carnoso, orthotropus ; cotyledones plani, suborbiculares, 

 radicula brevi, supera. 

 Arbor Chilensis et Chiloensis^ frondosa^ sempervirens ; folia 

 suhlanceolataj glanduloso-serrata^ hreviter joetiolata : flores 

 speciosi^ aurantiaci^ majusculij solitarii^ axillares^ longis- 

 sime pedunculati. 



1. Crinodendron Hooherianum^ C. Gay, Flor. Chile, i. p. 341 ; 

 — Crinodendron Patagua, Hook, {non Mol. nee Cav.) Bot. 

 Misc. iii. p. 156, tab. 100 ; — Arbor frondosa ; foliis suboppo- 

 sitis vel subternis, lanceolato-oblongis, utrinque obtusis aut 

 subacutis,marginibusvalderevolutis, remote serratis, dentibus 

 longe glanduloso-mucronatis, supra pallide viridibus, subtus 

 flavido-glaucis, in axillis nervorum fasciculato-barbatis, 

 nervis arcuatis prominentibus, petiolo limbo 12-plo breviore 

 costaque pubescente : floribus axillaribus, solitariis, cum 

 pedunculo apice incrassato pubescente 2-3-plo longiore 

 folia subsequantibus ; sepalis utrinque puberulis ; petalis 

 carnosulis, aurantiacis, glabris, sepalisque mox deciduis ; 

 ovario flavide tomentoso ; stylo subulato, ad medium piloso ; 

 capsula ovato-globosa, majuscula, grosse bullata, tomentosa, 

 4-5-sulcata, 4-5-loculari, apice breviter loculicide dehis- 

 cente ; seminibus in loculis 3 vel 4, majusculis ; testa Crus- 

 tacea. — In Chile prov. Yaldivia et in insula Chiloe : v. s. in 

 herb. meOj Mus. Brit.^ et Hooh.^ Valdivia (Bridges, 613) ; 

 Chiloe (Capt. King ; Cuming, 22). 



